As is customary, I was watching a Youtube of one of my favorite Home Machinist type guys, Steve Summers, and he showed this smoking deal on one of these,
You can see him demonstrate how handy they are starting at 28:15 into this video.
I have used these before, they used them at Assholes Incorporated where I used to work to weld the tips of Thermocouple wire sets together.
Platinum wire and Platinum and Rhodium wire, welded together at the tips to make custom length Thermocouples.
Expensive stuff that Platinum, a couple years ago it was $1500 an ounce.
Anyway, these little sets can be super handy for brazing carbide tips onto cutter tools, gas welding sheet metal, Silver Soldering, pin point heating of small parts and of course, jewelry making if you are into that.
For $25 and change with tax I already have one coming.
You can buy them cheap to use with MAPP gas and small Oxygen bottle sets too.
Amazon has the whole kit on sale for $58 plus tax.
I had no idea these kits could be had for so cheap.
I have heard that you may run into problems with the fittings so Buyer Beware, you may have to cut them off, buy different fittings and crimp them on but for twenty five bucks I’m rolling the dice.
I bought a little Acetylene cutting torch set off of my Dad before he died for $150 and I’m hoping these will fit that.
If not, I also have that small set up above for $58 that I bought from Sears a couple decades ago so I do have the small MAPP and Oxygen bottles around here somewhere too.
It is just a Brazing kit that works good but Acetylene gets a Hell of a lot hotter than MAPP gas and I can see this little Jewelers set being real damn handy for certain things.
You know me, the TOOL JUNKIE FROM HELL, it came naturally and I figure there are a whole bunch of you out there just like me when it comes to tools so I thought I would pass this deal on.
I used MAPP for several years. If serious, acetalyne is order of the day.
I have worked on controls for 25 years, never knew about platinum rhodium thermocouples. Looked them up, good to 1800 deg C for B type. We use a ton of 100 ohm platinum RTDs, and mostly J and K type thermocouples
Glad I don’t work around shit that would need to get 1800 degrees C
That outfit has runs over 2000 F every day. They used Types S,N and K exclusively.
N types were Load temp TC’s and S types were Furnace TC’s.
K types were equipment temp TC’s.
Some of the furnace temp TC’s were fifteen feet long.
Good old Assholes Incorporated.
They have divisions everywhere, so I’ll bet a lot of your readers have worked for them at one time or another.
I know I did.
thanks for the heads up!!
What every man needs Phil. We can never have enough tools. They are like ammo.
Question, is AI the ford corp?
No, an international heat treating corp.
Look up Hot Isostatic Press on Youtube.