Today I acquired...........

[Maker]

5kg of this wire for £25 delivered.

Absolutely no use for it at all, but hey, it's Inconel 600, I was gonna have it.

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I dread to think what that must have cost new!

 

[Shox Dr]

5kg of this wire for £25 delivered.

Absolutely no use for it at all, but hey, it's Inconel 600, I was gonna have it.

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Ive a handful of inconel rods I bought about 10yrs ago. Still to use one

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Well my new fine pole magnetic vice has arrived from Poland:

I meant to ask for the link for that, looks like it might be just the job for clamping on the Amolco. What do you mean when you refer to "sacrificial plates"?

 

[Nick DV]

5kg of this wire for £25 delivered.

Absolutely no use for it at all, but hey, it's Inconel 600, I was gonna have it.

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Excuse my ignorance, but what is special about them?

 

[Shox Dr]

Excuse my ignorance, but what is special about them?

Its a Hi Nikel/chromium alloy that can take silly temps either way, along with high corrosion resistance

 

[roblane65]

5kg of this wire for £25 delivered.

Absolutely no use for it at all, but hey, it's Inconel 600, I was gonna have it.

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What would that be used for then ? / bit too slow posting

 

[Maker]

What would that be used for then ? / bit too slow posting

Welding inconel.

 

[Richiew]

What would that be used for then ? / bit too slow posting

F1 exhausts I think.

 

[Munkul]

Excuse my ignorance, but what is special about them?

What would that be used for then ? / bit too slow posting

Welding Inconel, most of the Inconel family actually, although it's not a proper match for grade 625. Or weld cladding something as an overlay. Or joining dissimilar metals, there's enough nickel in it to work for most grades of stainless and nickel alloys to steel.

Inconel is used in very high temperature or chemical service, often both... it's very good for the likes of turbine blades. Not that I'll be welding any turbine blades

Anyway, there's a load more sat on ebay, if anyone wants some... search "nicro 82"

 

[Nick DV]

Its a Hi Nikel/chromium alloy that can take silly temps either way, along with high corrosion resistance

Inconel is used in very high temperature or chemical service, often both... it's very good for the likes of turbine blades. Not that I'll be welding any turbine blades

Thank you chaps, I now feel less inadequate

 

[Gragson]

F1 exhausts I think.

Also on 1984 GPZ 750 Turbo original headers

 

[Shox Dr]

It's done. It tastes...

Alright I suppose. No nicer than without the nitrogen.

It looks cool at least, it's got the classic cascading look, here's a tiny gif.
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I think if I made a better coldbrew to begin with it would have been much better. I used 10:1 water to coffee, some recipes online go as much as 4:1 . I also just arbitrarily opened the grinder up a couple of clicks from where I had it for pour over and it, no idea where it should be (More specifically than just "Coarse"). It was a very light roast too, I imagine something darker would extract better in cold water. I'll have a chat with the roaster soon, he supplies nitro coldbrew in corny kegs to local coffee shops so should be able to point me in the right direction.

It's probably a good thing it's not amazing anyway, it's got to be the most expensive way to make coffee (Short of just buying it from Costa ).

I’ll just leave this here to settle(in)

 

[cr500dom]

I've certainly tried.
Two years tee-total, come 1st january

Awesome !!
When people ask me why I don’t drink:

“everyone in life has their allocated number of cases....... my problem was, I drank all mine at once”

nearly 25 years sober for me now, one day at a time

 

[Arc Tourist]

We can't be greedy, got to leave some for the next generation.

 

[cr500dom]

So I went to see a friend today, who gifted me these
A lovely little Paramo No.1 and an early (I think) record No.3

 

[brewdexta]

@slim_boy_fat and @Welderpaul , the 15m pressure hose arrived that you were interested in. I bought it from here

Its far better than the stock hose, but at nearly half the cost of the whole pressure washer then it should

Its braided rubber rather than hard plastic which helps,

You can see it uncoils quite easily, the Karcher one is like a watch spring

This is the karcher hose, I guess if it was stretched out in a warm room for a while, or stick it in some warm water for a while then stretch it out then it would be a bit better but its always going to want to tangle up.

the two side by side, the new one is on the left, its a bit thicker but has a higher temp/pressure spec but is still more flexible and seems to have less memory. Its snowing up here so I won't be trying it out for a while. I checked it fits the pressure washer ok but that's about it for now.

Cheers
Andy

 

[brewdexta]

It does affect the taste but its more about the mouthfeel, it makes it almost thick and creamy, think fresh verses flat Guiness. Brewdexta probably knows more than me, theres a lot of crossover with beer, I've only tasted it a few times.

Some independent (read expensive) coffee shops (And Starbucks apparently) have it on tap, Nam Song in Sheffield is where I first tried it.

Pasteurising beer removes all the carbonation, so for keg beers its added back either with just CO2, or with some nitrogen added. The nitrogen has smaller bubbles and gives you those cream flow type of "ales" and Guinness. Both are far from the origins of ale and stout. I wouldn't touch a pint of John Smith's creamflow or Guinness unless the only alternative was Carling, Budweiser (not Budvar, that's not too bad) or that horrible Jagermeister, proof that people will buy any old tosh if you market it correctly

 

[slim_boy_fat]

@brewdexta Many thanks for that, I've bookmarked that site for future reference.

 

[Mick Annick]

@brewdexta Many thanks for that, I've bookmarked that site for future reference.

Me too, though a little saddened that my two machines have different handles

 

[8ob]

Two gurt 4mtr plus long hydraulic rams, a huge hydraulic tank, a load of ali chequer plate, some flat and round bar all courtesy of @Pete.