[TheForge] Re: Ralph, Mike and their toys (Was: OT Threads ?)

[Jerry Frost]

From: "Mike Spencer" <mspencer at tallships.ca>


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> Yeah, Frosty, I spotted stuff like that on some aviation sites, too
> -- seems to be guys building helicopters or gyrocopters.  Looked very
> pricey.  I'd go for a cheap one of them quick.  Even a pricey one if
> absolutely necessary.  But we all know that as soon as you start
> messing with gear outside of the consumer-grade playpen, all the
> little bits add up real fast, so I always look for a clever hack
> before a convenient [1] purchase.  Somehow, my contacts in the
> boat/engine/machinery domain seem to have died off but I'll ask around
> and see if that's something I could pick up without getting a mortgage
> on the potato patch.
>

I'll ask him where he gets them next weekend. (mine) He made them sound 
pretty affordable.

> BTW, where do you go to get weldable pipe fittings, the kind of thing
> you'd buy if you were manufacturing tanks with threaded fitting welded
> in?  Ordinary pipe fittings are some kind of cast iron and don't seem
> to weld worth a s--t.  I have this spectacular 60 gal.  Halon tank,
> rated for 600 PSI, but I need to weld up threaded fittings for it
> because the existing ports are all threaded for special, large
> diameter, high-pressure valves and stuff.
>

I have an industrial type pipe supplier about 10 miles from here. If they 
don't carry what I want there's a couple larger places in Anchorage, 50 
miles or so. Lastly, order it and we can get it as fast as I want to pay 
for.

>
> - Mike
>
> [1] And around here, "convenient" often isn't very.  Drive to Halifax,
>    the fifth guy I try finds it in a catalog and will order it from
>    Montreal.  The guys in Montreal may have to order it from
>    Cleveland or Guangdong.  And of course, when it gets here I'm
>    going to need this and that other little item, etc.  Ho hum.  Back
>    to the junk pile and the well-worn Automated Head-Scratcher.
>
> -- 
> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~.
>                                                           /V\

A few years ago Phil and his wife Debbie stopped by to talk on their way to 
Galena. I got a quick E-mail from him a couple months ago to say hi and that 
they'd made their place in Galena. When I start thinking things around here 
are inconvenient I'll talk to you. When things around there start feeling 
inconvenient drop Phil a line. <grin>

http://www.galenavillageblacksmith.com/

Frosty
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