This belongs on a Dalek spaceship.
Jason, If you work on cars, do you respect only the people who make their own wrenches? In casting metal, do you make your own crucibles and...
No argument. And no accusation was implied.
I keep thinking about building my first setup, but only because that's what everyone does. I'm really more interested in using the equipment than...
I wouldn't dare contradict this, yet I do need to add that one can fool oneself into being obstructively cautious. I knew a guy who'd taken the...
You wrote "Too bad they don't make tiny tig torches or right angle ones" and Jason pointed you to some. I meant to add that one can weld bronze...
They also make tiny oxy-butane torches. (Not all products are current.)...
It's tempting to think that would make borosilicate glass. The sodium borate might decompose to sodium oxide and boron oxide. (2Na3BO3 → 3Na2O +...
Borax glass is easy to make, yes. It's also weak and water soluble. (Both good for cleaning it off after soldering with borax flux, not so good...
That sounds... awkward. Now you're just being nasty. (OK, I'll slink back into my hole now.)
Regarding the hole for the wires: Lamp fittings are all based on ¼" threaded pipe, and a lamp like this made by other processes (e.g. pottery)...
The issue is that gasoline is a lot more volatile. It's not the liquid that'll get you, it's the vapor. K1 (kerosene) D1 (uncommon "light diesel")...
Yeah, I wasn't even considering gasoline. I've long told my daughter and nephews, if you're going to do stupid things with inflammable liquids, as...
As I think I understand it, waste oil burners use waste engine oil and similar. Does this have to be traditional oils? That is, does the waste...
OK, I probably shouldn't stick my nose in, as I have essentially zero maachining experience; feel free to ignore this. I do know a little bit (a...
Here's a nutty idea. Someone please tell me whether it's merely nutty or downright stupid. Take one of those shop air blow guns (e.g. this), hook...
Yeah, I haven't got one either. Or a foundry for that matter, but if there's a practical way to print wax patterns that would be one more reason...
Is anyone using 3D printing to make wax patterns? Can one get a wax or sufficiently wax-like filament? I've googled and found that it may be...
Thanks. As to what I plan to cast, I don't really know yet, as I don't... Wait, just read my introduction post in that subforum. The short version...
I want to start in the hobby and recently joined the forum to read and learn. This is the first building-from-scratch thread I've started on (I...
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