A Nice Video from a Workshop

Seems this video is taking a trip around the world. :-) Really fantastic, worth looking at!

Nick

Fascinating, thanks for posting that.

Peter

Looks like his little spot welder was made from a leather rivetter?

Mr Flemming would be proud of him!

AWEM

Brilliant and fascinating, thanks for that. The "sooty" flame was for stress relieving? Spooky, I look VERY like him.

On or around Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:32:03 +0100, Nick Mueller enlightened us thusly:

yeah, I saw it in the shedde.

In article , Richard Edwards writes

Yes, and also stress avoiding: if you blast a small area with a very hot flame at the outset, it could well crack. When you have finished, ideally you would bake in an oven for a while for stress relief, but a few minutes letting down the temperature in a gentle flame is a reasonable substitute.

(Used to dabble a bit in glass blowing in my distant past, not that I was ever in this chap's league).

David

Jolly interesting. Thanks for the link

Rod

In article , David Littlewood writes

Ah - I *thought* that was what appeared to be the little oven with the electric elements, was for. He quickly put, and suspended, glass items in it fresh from the torch. Thanks.

John

Fascinating!

Any idea what metals he was using? I presume something like Nichrome or Kanthal (or poss. tungsten?) for the heater element, but what about the other bits & pieces?

Regards, Tony

And on a british 4-pin base too !

Jim Hawkins