[TheForge] Re: Welding cast iron

[IowaHarry]

At this point McMaster Carr is the way I am going to go. A coupler nut, 
some bits of steel to flesh out the rest of  it and there ya go. Of 
course this will all happen some time after the purchase of a new vise. 
Thanks for the Mcmaster carr tip Bob.

Harry

Ron Childers wrote:
> U pack it to dam it, soot the threads and cast it in place. 
> U said it's a pos anyway, so nothing to lose. Brass is pretty tough and many
> old post vises were repaired that way a hundred years ago. It's really not
> that hard to do. Sounds like a proof of concept syndrome-(Chicken v possum.)
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> Steve is the expert; I just helped at a demo- I think the brass could be
> melted in any heavy iron vessel in a gas or coal forge and poured in to form
> the nut. Ron C
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