First attempt at silver soldering :-(

[Jerry CashmanParticipant @jerrycashman49324]

Hey, turns out that you can heat Brass parts too much… found a nice spring clamp to hold the parts I was soldering next, got everything clean and fluxed up, poured the heat on and soldered nicely – when everything was cool I pulled the spring clamp off to find that it had sunk into the brass by about 2mm!

Live and learn – what fun

[Jerry CashmanParticipant @jerrycashman49324]

Hi guys,

Just though a quick post in order – after lots of learning my Hero Engine fired up last night!

It's waay too ugly to photograph, it's dinged, scratched covered in soot and wonky – but it spun under it's own power (albeit slowly).

I'm over the moon and am now scouring for my next project – which will be a simple oscilator of some form…

Thanks for the help and support !

cheers. Jerry

Canberra – Oz.

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

Great stuff Jerry.

Where in Oz can I buy some of those "good" cheap lightwieight firebrick thingies? (And what is the proper name for them?)

[Jerry CashmanParticipant @jerrycashman49324]

Hi Hopper,

I found a couple of these firebricks at my local Bunnings! Mind you, I got lucky – the guy I spoke to said they used to stock them regularly, but had dropped the line several weeks ago and he had two left that someone had returned. He sold them to me for $4 each.

The girl at the cash register had a nightmare as they weren't even in their product database anymore – so don't just try asking at the front desk – they'll say they don't have em. I found them by wandering around out the back near all the pavers and just lucked out by asking the right guy who knew where these returned blocks were. If you try Bunnings, recommend you try the same tactic

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

Posted by Jerry Cashman on 30/05/2013 03:13:32:

Hi Hopper,

I found a couple of these firebricks at my local Bunnings! Mind you, I got lucky – the guy I spoke to said they used to stock them regularly, but had dropped the line several weeks ago and he had two left that someone had returned. He sold them to me for $4 each.

The girl at the cash register had a nightmare as they weren't even in their product database anymore – so don't just try asking at the front desk – they'll say they don't have em. I found them by wandering around out the back near all the pavers and just lucked out by asking the right guy who knew where these returned blocks were. If you try Bunnings, recommend you try the same tactic

Thanks Jerry. I go past Bunnings several times a week, on the way to the dump recycle shop so will stop in and have look for some bricks.

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