[TheForge] Re: Forge Welding Chainsaw Chain

[Mike Spencer]

My $0.02 worth:

    Put a cup or two of ordinary borax in a steel or cast ladle

    Heat on the forge until it melts to a sticky, viscous liquid.
    Dull red heat, takes a while. 

    Pour onto a steel slab or welding table.  Turns to black glass.

    Break up with a hammer. Easy, like glass.

    Run through a cheap old meat grinder from the flea market.
    Makes gritty powder.  Only hard part is turning that crank.

    Sprinkle on the weld.  Sticks and melts with no mess.

I'm thinking of motorizing my cheap grinder to make the only hard part
easy.  I suppose if I could find a mechanical mortar in a junk pile,
that would work as well.

Oh, BTW, if you like to build silly stuff like mechanized flux
grinders, this might be interesting:

  http://www.brockeng.com/mechanism/index.htm

Cute animations; requires Java enabled on your browser; no huge
downloads required to enjoy.


- Mike

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