On Friday 18 October 2013 13:31:43 Dave Cole did opine: > If you have a torch, Mapp or Acetylene/Air at least, you can silver > solder Stainless. Which is probably the way to go if it is thin tube. > > Dave
I have a MAPP kit, bought it new several years ago. Its worthless, the fire is not controllable. Never was from pulling it out of the blisterpack. > On 10/18/2013 12:19 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 18 October 2013 12:05:22 andy pugh did opine: > >> On 18 October 2013 16:48, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > >>> Funny part is, you don't go shopping, and then > >>> make, I tend to make & then go shopping to see if I could have > >>> bought it cheaper & faster. > >> > >> I quite often go shopping in unexpected places when I decide to make > >> something on a sunday or late at night. It's amazing what useful > >> material you can find inside items sold by Ikea or 24-hr > >> supermarkets. > >> > >> As an example, Ikea "Grundtal" is quite a lot of stainless steel tube > > > > Looks like, for 12 or 17 pounds S., not too shabby for a Sunday. But > > I don't have anything to weld it with, limited to MIG, with steel or > > alu wire & have never tried the alu wire. IIRC that SS needs a TIG? > > > >> for not a lot of money, and available on Sunday (here at least). > >> http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/00011428/ > > > > And obviously you have learned to work with that which you can get, or > > already have. And while we have no local IKEA (nearest I'm aware of > > is west of Pittsburgh PA on US 60 headed toward the PIT airport, > > 2.75+ hours away on the superslab), we have an ALDI, but they're 99% > > grocery oriented here. > > > > Cheers, Gene > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ October Webinars: Code for Performance > Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. > Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most > from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and > register > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135031&iu=/4140/ostg.cl > ktrk _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Alaska: A prelude to "No." A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
