Source for large (20" to 26") metal pipe? North Texas

a large air compressor tank that has a rusted out bottom.

With a 1/4" wall? Highly unlikely.

Harold

I've got a couple of pieces of 30" pipe out back. I believe one is

Wayne Cook Shamrock, TX

it's for a smoker. looking at one in the store, it's pretty thin and nowhere near 1/4".

Water heater tank.

Hey, Wayne, thanks for your response. I really want to stay in the

I'm going to tell my friend about the pipe you've got, he may be interested. Again, thanks for your response and I hope I don't seem rude, but that's just not what I'm looking for (unless I get a brainstorm suddenly ).

--HC

Wayne, Sure it is not out front? Just browsed through your site and see a piece out front. I know how we all forget where the goodies are.

All in good fun.

Hey, Wayne, just hit your site...wow, I'm impressed, you do some serious stuff out there. I've been to Shamrock (the nursing home there used my software for nursing orders and such from about November '04 until they closed up several months back) and I know it's not a really big town; you must be *the* go-to guy for machining stuff out there.

--HC

In your part of the country there should be drill casing around aprox. in the size you want.

:-) Very funny. :-)

Actually if you'll note the date that overall pic is over a year old. I've since gotten permission to use the hill north of my house for storage and hauled in over 75,000lbs of steel in various forms.

The piece you see in the picture is 20" pipe and it is currently in use. You can see it here.

I understand. :-)

Wayne Cook Shamrock, TX

I understand. I just thought I'd mention it since you're fairly close and might get by with it.

No problem just letting you know it's available.

Wayne Cook Shamrock, TX

Thanks. I'm pretty popular that's for sure. My problem is finding good help.

Wayne Cook Shamrock, TX

It's not as common as you'd think at least in my area.

Actually thinking about it I might happen to have a piece of 20" pipe. I'm not sure if it's long enough or even if I do have 20". I'll have to got back and look sometime later this evening.

Wayne Cook Shamrock, TX

Wayne,

Way to use your resources. I actually say your stove on a previous visit to your site. Guess I did not put two and two together.

Ok. I just came from around back. I have two pieces of 20" pipe. One is 7' long and has dished end caps on it (it was used as a air tank a really long time ago), the other is 7' 9" with 3/8" wall. The second piece is a really nice piece of pipe. The only concern with it is the fact that it's got a epoxy paint on most of the outside. Past experience has shown this stuff to be very difficult to get rid of though this piece doesn't seem to have as thick a coat as some items I've worked with in the past.

I've also got a piece of 23" pipe which is in a little rougher condition. It's about 4' long but has a U cut out of one end with only

Wayne Cook Shamrock, TX

I knew a guy who was allergic to epichlorohydrin due to really sloppy practices in his younger days. That was why he was a research scientist in the urethanes dept. instead of the epoxy dept. Every time we would burn out a die or piece of pipe with epoxy in it in the fluidized sand bath burn-out furnace, he'd come around rubbing his eyes, and ask if we were "burning that damned epoxy again". His eyes would itch like hay fever if we were burning out and he was 1/4 mile upwind.

Be careful of fumes from burning epoxy.

Pete Keillor

I got that piece of pipe specifically for the stove. It sat out there for well over a year before I got around to building the stove.

Wayne Cook Shamrock, TX

More proof that the winters are not that bad in TX.

First winter up here and I would be putting that pipe to good use in a hurry.

:)

Hey, Wayne, I had a piece of pipe here that had a coating on it that appeared to have been tar on the outside (mostly removed by whomever had the pipe before I got it, presumably the metal yard it had come from at some point) and beneath that a light teal colored heavy plastic-type coating. Burning a fire inside the pipe caused the outer coating of whatever that teal colored stuff was and the tar to soften to the point that I was able to easily push it off with a shovel as the fire burned. Does that sound like the epoxy coating you're talking about? That 7' 9" piece might be alright if that coating is easily removed by a hobbyist... I don't want to have to waste about 50 wire cup brushes knocking the stuff off.. :(

Thank you for checking on that stuff.

--HC