[TheForge] Forge Welding Chainsaw Chain

[xlch58 at swbell.net]

And it is easy to make the anhydrous from the twenty mule team by just 
heating it up pouring it out and crushing it up.   I like the anhydrous 
myself, a little less mess while using it ( get the mess while making it)

Charles

Ralph Douglass wrote:

>Schade wrote:
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>>On Jan 4, 2005, at 11:11 AM, gblacksmith wrote:
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>>> For flux, you need anhydrous borax (which is water-free).  Borax with
>>>any water in it will puff up to a cottony consistency when heated,
>>>tend to fall away from the joint and fail as an insulator.
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>>This would be a good time to be able to search the archives.
>>I know we have been around this block many times re:
>>anhydrous v. 20 Mule Team. My own not that well informed
>>opinion is that any water in 20 Mule will be soon enuf gone
>>when put in the fire. Sure it foams up a little but if your material
>>is hot enuf the 20 Mule covers it like glass.
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>>The way it seems to me.
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>>Bob
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>I agree. I did buy some anhydrous as well as the 20 Mule team.After the
>anhydrous was opened it became in fairly short order hydrous as it does
>tend to suck water from the air.
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>Only difference in use was 20 Mule team foamed a a slight bit more.
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>Just my 2 cents worth
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>Ralph
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