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    need massive info dump on solder/brazing

    Hello folk I have just looked up Brazing in a 1850 Mech handbook it is spelled Brase as in Brass, fillers were described as copper zinc mixtures IE Brass. It seems that our USA friends changed the spelling and brought it back to the UK in the first World War as Braze. I hope this confusion may...
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    hello from hampshire, Engalnd, UK

    From one Hog to another ;D Welcome Totton and New Milton. Trev PS to them that do not know Hampshire hogs is the nickname of Hampshireites. Taken from the New Forest Pigs let out each Autumn to eat the Acorns. :big:
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    Started on my furnace !

    Hello Ksor From the looks of your torch, i think you need a bigger compressor as insufficient air allows the torch to overheat. Also fit a low air cutout switch if you do not wish to replace the torch regularly. I have the same model cutter and I am able to cut to 25mm clean, and more but...
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    Model Rockets at 120k feet

    Hello folk I came across this today and admire the film and results. http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/03/07/223255/amateur-rocketeer-derek-devilles-qu8k-rocket-flies-to-120000-feet-video I hope you like it Trev
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    Useing a coin as a size comparison (not wise)

    The pound started about 100 X 50 mm X thin (.05mm ish) or even bigger but I was then a babby. It got smaller and smaller by size and changed material to brass, now it is a little washer before the hole is punched, the two pound one is a washer with a plug in the middle to fill the hole. As...
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    Christmas

    Hello and a Merry Christmas and a happy New year to all Just a minuet I am not so sure about you Australians and New Zealand'ers I just occurred to me, now I know why I only get Little ( light) pressies from Santa. >:( You bu*ers get em first, with the cost of fuel (hay and things) Santa has to...
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    more grinding and suction

    I am sorry that there was no pictures, Now fixed I hope. Trev Moderator at BMECS Site.
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