[TheForge] ...light on for ya...

Thu Mar 7 01:28:00 2002

Another  light layer of BS babble here.
I have used a 15 to 25 W bulb in my  3' fridge  rod storage for 30 odd 
years...all right, a buncha bulbs, I toss em in a pile and someday I'll 
glue em up into a sculpture....but.
The erudite Mr Rutterbrush showed us a link to Lincon welding co on the 
subject that made it quite clear that that
IS NOT HOT ENOUGH for proper storage of 60xx series rods, much less low 
hydrogen or stainless rods.
If I read it right, the Low Hydrogen rods need a temperature in excess of 
the flash temperature of the fridge door gasgets.
I've found that I can't use my stored but opened  rods for structurally 
critical applications....An expensive discovery since I started  my 
informal  little destructive weld sample tests.

The cheap guy pays the most category...
When the local "Cookie Crock" market moved to a new, bigger location; I 
went and bought all the old florescent lighting fixtures really cheap and 
put them way up on the ceiling of my new shop. Now the shop  has become 
pretty much filled with junk as I am a primal packrat and I can no longer 
get the scaffolding in the front door to service the lights. They sound 
like a lost WW2 bomber squadron all shot up and looking for somewhere to 
land. Can blacksmithing induced hearing loss be a good thing?.......Pete F

At 11:37 AM 3/4/02, you wrote:
>Dan
>That is one of the points of my rant, your house has too high a voltage
>and if you switch to 130 Volt bulbs, they will solve your problem
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