In a message dated 12/6/00 8:36:08 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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<< Try this one for brazing:
http://www.handyharmancanada.com/TheBrazingBook/bbook.htm
>>
In looking at the Handy & Harmon Brazing book, I came across the following
entry for Soldering Filler Metals.
: Multiple recipients of sslivesteam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 12:05 AM
>Subject: Re: Silver Solder/Soldering
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>> Kozo Hiraoka wrote what must be the best (and prehaps the shortest!)
>> treatise ever written on boiler soldering. It was i
Is there any websites on the net about silver soldering boilers??
Dougk
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From: VR Bass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of sslivesteam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 12:05 AM
Subject: Re: Silver Solder/Soldering
> Koz
The last thing I remember hearing is that gauge one boilers are completely
under the radar of that law, and that if we just shut up and keep our noses
clean the relevant department won't have to deal with us (which they don't
want) and we won't have to worry about them (which we don't want).
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Kozo Hiraoka wrote what must be the best (and prehaps the shortest!)
treatise ever written on boiler soldering. It was in Live Steam magazine in
about 1996 or 1997, as part of the Pennsy switcher series, as I recall. It's
definitely worth calling Live Steam to see whether they have back issue
Walt,
In the July/August 2000 edition of Live Steam, Thomas P. Patton wrote a
letter that stated that the State of Michigan had no intention of imposing
such legislation onto the hobbiest. His letter also says that you can send a
self addressed business size envelope with 55 cents postage attac
Has anyone heard what ever happened in Michigan with their new boiler law?
Did it ever get applied to our "toy" boilers?
Keep your steam up!
Walt & Lunk
>My main concerns are that a poorly constructed boiler could explode and
> cause some serious physical harm to my fellow hobbists, even at the low
> pressure that some of these boilers operate at. Secondly, it would not take
> very many instances where boilers caused physical harm that the fe
There are many different manufacturers and probably twice as many kinds
of silver solder on the market. For the purposes of small scale live steam
engine boilers a 45% to 50% silver solder would be suitable for building
boilers.
As a retired professional weldor/machinist I feel that
