[TheForge] Re: Welding cast iron

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

A related approach is to cast a screw in graphite compound or refractory 
and build up a nut with brazing...chip out the screw core after it cools.
Want another dozen impractical solutions?...pf

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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