[TheForge] Rule of thumb (was Guesstamating)

[Roy Wilson]

On Sun, 31 Mar 2002 11:41:34 -0600, Dave Brown wrote:

>Sheesh!  I thought this ended on Friday.  One person said something, 
>somebody got offended, other person said it wasn't meant to be 
>offended.  Then it ended.  Let's not start it up again.  Please!

  We could always start up the "ABANA sucks!" threads again
instead.<G>

  Serious stuff...

  On that beancan style you were talking about.  I took about 2' of
1-1/2" heavy wall iron pipe, capped one end and cut a hole about a
third again larger than my torch head in the side of it, back near
the cap.  I needed to form a smooth half round in the end of a 5/8"
5150 bar.  I tossed a small rock in the pipe to rest the bar stock
on, a brick outside to hold the main weight of the bar, then put
the torch head *just* outside of the hole and fired it up with a
MAPP bottle on it.  Only took about four minutes to bring 18" or so
of the 5/8 up to high red working temp.

  I bought one of those $50 Bernz-o-matic torches that's a self
opening & igniting pistol on about 4' of hose, with a belt clip to
hold the bottle (handiest torch I've ever seen for working on
plumbing).  There's a trigger lock on it to keep a steady flame,
that's all I used to bring that bar up to temp.



Roy Wilson
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