[TheForge] Re: Forge Welding Chainsaw Chain

[Jerry Frost]

When I want to grind something I use a flee market blender I picked up for a
buck some years ago.

I didn't even think of using it on the baked borax/boric acid flux. <sigh>

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Spencer" <mspencer at tallships.ca>
To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 2:04 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Re: Forge Welding Chainsaw Chain


>
> 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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