[TheForge] Re: Flux

Thu Aug 21 19:59:01 2003

Just curious how you keep your shampoo bottle from melting over the white
hot steel.  Are you a sharpshooter at long range?

Ed
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Ehrenberger" <[email protected]>
To: "theforge" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 7:50 AM
Subject: [TheForge] Re: Flux

> Ed,
>
> My oven dried borax still foams, but not as much as it does out of the
box.
>
> My son didn't like it for making damascus because of all the airborn
> particles.  Of course he uses a lot of flux on his damascus, he covers the
> billet on every heat.
>
> I was forced to dry it out in the first place because my box of borax got
> wet and was totally unusable.  I like the dried borax because it flows
well
> in my squirt bottle.
>
> Bob Ehrenberger
> Shelbyville, Mo
>
> ++++++Original Message+++++
> Message: 12
> From: "Ed F" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Re: Flux
> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 21:24:09 -0500
> Reply-To: [email protected]
>
> It sounds like what you ended up with has the same consistancy I got.
It's
> been a while, but I saw a difference like night in day in use.  Doesn't
your
> stuff out of the box foam and flow poorly?  The oven baked stuff doesn't
> foam and gets glassy and flows together, like EZ Weld.  It only takes
about
> a half hour to cook it dry.
>
> Ed
>
>
>
>
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