Sorry Vance, but must disagree. Stop bath is a weakish solution of Acetic
acid - next one up the series from Formic acid. Formic acid is much more
irritant than Acetic acid. Formic acid is what ants inject you with when
thelittle blighters bite you. Commonest form of Acetic acid is
Mike Chaney wrote:
long ago I decided only to use
nickel silver
I'm intrigued by this nickel silver stuff. could you use it in place
of brass for everything ? And if so, to what advantage ? (I can deal
with having to anneal it for some purposes) Can you chemically blacken
it more
At 03:43 PM 9/19/04 -0700, you wrote:
So what pressure would you recommend
for normal airbrushing ? (I have a real compressor - up to 20cfm at
175psi)
That's more than enough. I have Thayer-Chandlers and they do just fine
on 15psi or less and at fractional cfm. A much more important
Hi Harry.
Harry Wade wrote:
I have Thayer-Chandlers
That an airbrush mfgr?
have filtered air, eleiminate as much moisture and dirt
in the supply as possible.
I could probably stand to get a better moisture filter. My uses are for
large machines using air to apply pressure to feed rollers.
Hi Kevin.
Just visited your website and reviewed your article on brass
blackening boiler jackets. In it, you mention the promise of nickel
silver. What have you found out about nickel silver as to it's
blackening affinity ?
royce in SB
