[TheForge] design help needed.

Mon Dec 2 07:37:00 2002

OPTIONS:
*You could TIG weld the joints
*You could make it a a shrink fit assembly - Make the holes for the 1/4" brass rod smaller than 1/4" by a few mils, heat the pieces up in an oven to a couple of hundred degrees and slip them together, making sure to hold each piece in place until it cools and "locks" into place. Those machinists out there might give more precise guidelines, but I have done this with machined turbine parts, it works.
Ray
Cincinnati
> 
> From: "terry l. ridder" <[email protected]>
> Date: 2002/12/02 Mon AM 03:30:25 EST
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [TheForge] design help needed.
> 
> hello;
> 
> i am making some brass candlesticks for christmas presents and was
> hoping to use a brass yellow finish hard solder. well the price of hard
> silver solder is out of my price range. below is a poor ascii drawing of
> the parts that need to be solder. the design is based on an iforge demo
> jock dempsey gave.
> 
> Brass Candle Sticks and More
> http://www.anvilfire.com/iForge/tutor/jdcandle/top_index.htm
> 
> i would like a small fillet of solder at these joints:
> where the oo and 1/4" brass rod meet.
> where the oo and OO rings meet.
> where the OO ring meets the dished drip pan and base.
> where the 3/4" copper tubing meets the 16 gage dished drip pan.
> 
> i was thinking i would take one of the spools of oatey safe-flo silver
> solder and use it. (in cleaning the shop the past 6 weeks i discovered 5
> 1 lbs spools of this solder. ;-) ) a silver finished solder joint with a
> small fillet at the above joints would perhaps lend some constrast to
> the brass yellow.
> 
> 
>              \------------/
>               |          | <-- 3/4" copper tubing 
>    +---------------------------------+
>     \         |          |          / <-- 16 gage C260 dished drip pan
>      \        |----------|         /      2-1/2 inches in diameter
>       +---------------------------+
>                 00|  |OO <-- 3/16" brass ring 1/4" inside diameter
>                  o|  |o  <-- 1/8"  brass ring 1/4" inside diameter
>                   |  |   <-- 1/4"  brass rod
>                   ~  ~
>                   |  |   <-- 1/4"  brass rod
>                  o|  |o  <-- 1/8"  brass ring 1/4" inside diameter
>                 00|  |OO <-- 3/16" brass ring 1/4" inside diameter
>    +---------------------------------+
>   /                                   \ <-- 16 gage C260 dished base
>  /                                     \    3-1/2 inches in diameter
> +---------------------------------------+
> 
> would anyone have alternative ideas? would anyone know of alternative
> hard solder that is brass yellow finish that is reasonable in price?
> 
> -- 
> Terry L. Ridder ><>
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