W/Cu rod, Welding helium

I've got some that is 1" dia by 8" long. But that's all. Can't remember what I paid. It was interesting, like the little pot of DU balancing weights :-)

Mark Rand RTFM

I expect that's worth a good £35 - You'd maybe think I was drunk when I posted - I meant 1/8" diameter .. though come to think of it, I did eecant a bottle of port earlier today, and had a glass or two, kust the drggy bits

-- Peter F

Should I be thinking of sticking the bar into a collet in the lathe and turning most of one end of it into swarf to generate some 1/8" dia for you or, more likely, chopping off 1 1/2" , slicing it into a number of sections and then turning them into little 1/8" dia bars?

Regards Mark Rand RTFM

Thanks. but I think I'll try an old dart, or a TIG tungsten, first!

-- Peter

Look in this month's (probably billed as *next* month's!) Classic Bike (Not Classic Motorcycle) and there is an advert for rent-free bottles of

everything except what I wasnt - so-called Turbogas - oxy-turbogas burns

to 1,500 degrees C

Nxt time I post (which might be a week hence) I'll reveal the name of the firm - if I unforget...