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

[Dave Brown]

At 22:28 03/06/02 -0800, you wrote:
>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.

How hot is that?  "flash point" sounds like you mean the temperature at 
which the gasket will start burning, right?  This sounds more like the 
temperature for drying out rods that have picked up some moisture rather 
than basic storage.  When I have time I'll have to go take a look at the 
Lincoln site on this.

Another alternative would be to get one of those vacuum food sealer things 
and bag the bulk of rods from an open pack and vacuum pack them in smaller 
quantities until needed.

Dave Brown