I found the tungsten powder ended up having enough air space between each particle that regular lead pored into identical brass tubes weighed as much or more than the tungsten and was usually quite a bit less costly. A friend of mine found the tungsten powder at a golf supplier; used for weighting the heads of clubs.
BCNU Bruce Hobbs -----Original Message----- From: Marta Zavala [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 11:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; soaring@airage.com Subject: Re: [RCSE] Tungsten Ballast Thanks Mark, already have a 200.00 chunk of tunsten so I have to cut it into pieces! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: soaring@airage.com <soaring@airage.com> Date: Monday, March 14, 2005 9:33 AM Subject: Re: [RCSE] Tungsten Ballast > >>I have some 3/4 inch heavy tunsten alloy stock I need to cut. Do I have to >> have a machine shop cut it or is it possible to cut it at home with???? >> Thanks, Walter > >You can probably work your way through it with a zip disk on a 4" grinder, >but >it would be much easier to go online and order a pound or 2 of tungsten >powder. >It is about $12.00 per pound if you look around a bit..... > >Mark Mech >www.aerofoam.com > >RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
