[TheForge] [YAK] Acupuncture needles (Was: Strengthening castable...)

Sat Aug 30 05:15:01 2003

Mr Gladish;  Seems to me that the thing to do with them needles is 
clearly, pattern welding..lots of  possibilities there.

BOB Hotanvil, It's in Machinery's Handbook

gladish wrote:

>>>>Holy cats! How bout melting em with a torch and casting with em.
>>>>This gets rid
>>>>of the bugs and does some art too.
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>>>>
>>>That was her first suggestion, but I think they'd just burn up.
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>>>
>>Is there a
>>    
>>
>>>way to keep that from happening?
>>>Andy G.
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>>>
>>Flux. Lots and lots of flux, just like you do when you're trying to melt
>>(weld) anything else.
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>>
>
>Thanks, Phlip, haven't deliberately melted anything but lead since
>silversmithing in the mid 70's, but that's what we did, alright...
>Andy G.
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