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i found these the other day. Cast iron and the top comes off. What were they designed for? Heating up soldering irons? Or possibly heating something up to harden? Discuss....
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Sean similar for tar melters and keeping the tar buckets on.
Very common in the 1960's to 70's
Very common in the 1960's to 70's
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They aren’t very long, maybe 4-5”. Don’t think you would have much joy balancing a bucket on it. The lid part intrigues me
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The tar/pitch bucket sits on the lid.They aren’t very long, maybe 4-5”. Don’t think you would have much joy balancing a bucket on it. The lid part intrigues me
I had one a few years ago when I was helping on a wooden canal boat.
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Tinsmith's or Tinmans soldering iron stand.
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I remember those from school in the Junior Metalwork Room for heating up soldering irons.
Not seen one for over 45 years. Jeez I’m getting old!
Not seen one for over 45 years. Jeez I’m getting old!
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yep for soldering irons big copper ones cable jointers used them on underground cables and we had them at school
When I think back to what we used to get up to in the metalwork lab, I'm quite surprised we managed to reach middle age.
Clamping live .22 bullets that we found on the local rifle range in a vice and setting them off with a hammer and centre punch, putting the chuck key in the lathe chuck and dropping the clutch in at highest spindle speeds, seeing who could chop a paintbrush into to the most pieces by shoving it in the cutter of the horizontal mill, etc, etc...
Innocent times
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speaking of gas burner's.....
do you remember those brazing hearths we used at scool.....
ran of town gas and a little electric comp underneath......
fancy one for home use ....anyone got one to copy or ideas.....
I'd run it on propane and from the w/shop comp via a regulator.....
anyone done it....?
do you remember those brazing hearths we used at scool.....
ran of town gas and a little electric comp underneath......
fancy one for home use ....anyone got one to copy or ideas.....
I'd run it on propane and from the w/shop comp via a regulator.....
anyone done it....?
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flamefast make the torches and will run on propane and compressed air
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They do come up on ebay, around 150-200quid
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Have you a use for them?
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No, thanks.
I just wondered if you had a project in mind....clean up/paint/turn into something else etc
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Frank, I have a flamefast brazing hearth,they're really good especially for model copper boiler making, mine was for natural gas & flamefast wanted£30 per torch to convert to propane, [stuff that!] so I tried propane as is & it burns pefectly well but a bit sensitive to adjust, I've brazed lots of boilers with it & it only runs at 3-4 psi propane so economical with the gas,I think you'll struggle with a compressor as you want quite a high volume of air & not a lot of pressure,I only use my sievert no for smaller jobs now.
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I’ve probably got a batch of split bushes to make so more than likely will use them to solder the two haves together prior to finish machiningNo, thanks.
