After reading Keith's message I had another look on e-bay. I have found a box of 12 4 mm rods, which I think will do the job. Thanks for the lead. BTW, Keith's...
Hi Mike, All, I have obtained the following concerning Fred Blackman ('Mallard'): (Note: we are here discussing the first use of 'surface etching' to remove...
... is struck between the filler wire and the work, with the wire then being used to make the weld, and TIG welding, where the arc is struck between the work...
Hi George, Just replied to your earlier email - didn't see this one - yahoo seem to be mixing the emails up again! I am lead to believe that the engine is...
Hi Rob, Try Eileens Emporium - I got some from them at Halifax last year - they usually have 2 different sizes - 5 and 6mm diameter I believe. Regards, GeoffB ...
Hi Jim, TIG welding uses a tungsten electrode - hence TIG - Tunsten Inert Gas - which I use fairly regularly. I believe that the carbon rods were used as a...
Hi George, Sorry, forgot to mention in my last email the reply to the steaming question. Usually takes about 20mins or so to get to a reasonable (movable)...
Geoff, True in respect of TIG, and I had never come across the use of a carbon electrode either, although it is logical. I did some gas and stick welding a...
I missed the beginning of this thread, so apologies if I'm on the wrong track... If you are looking for RSU electrodes, then they're fairly easy to get here in...
Hello Geoff, Have I missed something? (My yahoo mhas been playing up recently). Is there a URL to the video mentioned by George? Would love to see the video...
I'm just completing my Robinson 04 2-8-0. Can anyone spare LNER characters for the tender and 6301 for the cabside? Pressfix or Methfix. As this is the only...
Jim, Yes, the stick welding doesn't seem to be around as much as in the past, as the MIG welders have become so much cheaper nowadays and are so much faster -...
Hi Jas, I don't have the video on the net but can send it of group if you like. It's basically a few laps around my garden railway (5" ground level) with real...
I'm sure someone on here will be able to answer instantly - I am finishing off some ex GER corridor 3rd coaches as running c1950 and wondered when they would...
Geoff, Its fun watching documentaries of 1940's shipbuilding, when stick welding was really quite novel (in shipbuilding, that is), and then seeing modern...
Exactoscale has offered a LSWR plain chair in 4mm scale for several years and now is the turn of 7mm sale - if there is a demand. In discussion with Len Newman...
Jim, As an engines man, not a shipbuilder, I can none-the-less remember the long road to such simplification in hull construction. The discovery that when ...
Evening all, I know next to nothing about welding but I did learn old fashioned arc welding about 30 years ago in a sculpture evening class. We made sculptures...
Jim If you want to see examples of modern welding then see what's been done on Tornado's boiler! More than "stuck together along the edges", but deep welds ...
Style is very much on the lines of LMS Journal, perfect bound, front cover is identical in format to previous issues of BRJ. Wild Swan adverts inside front and...
Hi all I had a go at this in the 70's at evening classes. One of the other guys asked if he could bring in a bucket to practice on. " Sure" said the...
Hi George, I have a feeling that sections of the hull on the Derbyshire were pulled together with chains and then welded so that the structure was permanently...
Thanks Bob. Mike B ... front cover is identical in format to previous issues of BRJ. Wild Swan adverts inside front and back covers and also on the back. ...
Bob, "Stuck together" being a little tongue in cheek! Full weld penetration is critical to structural joints, and I can recall advising a potential tank car...
