Metal melter...

[Boink]

... 800 amps. Pretty cool, er, hot.

 

[Guest]

Metal and cable melter. :friendly_wink:

 

[John Turney]

The spot welder is pretty cool also.

 

[waltesefalcon]

Great idea for making a spot welder out of junk.

 

[Boink]

I really like this guy's videos. He's got a LOT of them (involving rockets to welders).

 

[Banjo]

Oh! You have no idea what you have just started.......

 

[HealeyRick]

Anybody got any ideas how to use this to melt out a broken off stud in a cast iron manifold if it's broken below the surface?

 

[Boink]

Oh! You have no idea what you have just started.......

Hey, where's my microwave oven? It was here a minute ago.

 

[Banjo]

Healey Rick,I've been able to pull off that trick with a torch before, but you only get one shot at it. Best bet is to drill, and use an extractor. Heat is mandatory with that operation too. Bernz-o-matic with a bottle of MAPP gas should do for a stand in for a torch.

 

[Guest]

Anybody got any ideas how to use this to melt out a broken off stud in a cast iron manifold if it's broken below the surface?

No, but it sounds like the perfect thing to use if you want to weld it in and never use the block again.

 

[HealeyRick]

Healey Rick,I've been able to pull off that trick with a torch before, but you only get one shot at it. Best bet is to drill, and use an extractor. Heat is mandatory with that operation too. Bernz-o-matic with a bottle of MAPP gas should do for a stand in for a torch.

From what I've seen, the best way to pull off that trick is to find a machine shop with an EDM machine: https://www.hotrod.com/how-to/engine/...ng-broken-tap/
But if you could pull it off with a microwave oven while making some Newman's Own Microwave Popcorn, , that would be cool, too. Always love to see your location as Horseheads, in the 70s it meant we were getting close to the Grand Prix of the U.S.

 

[Banjo]

From what I've seen, the best way to pull off that trick is to find a machine shop with an EDM machine: https://www.hotrod.com/how-to/engine/...ng-broken-tap/
But if you could pull it off with a microwave oven while making some Newman's Own Microwave Popcorn, , that would be cool, too. Always love to see your location as Horseheads, in the 70s it meant we were getting close to the Grand Prix of the U.S.

Oh yea! That seems to be pretty neat! If it's just a broken bolt, you can likely just drill it out. It's those really hard things like taps and broken extractors that are really fun. If you were closer, I'd have you come over and we'd get that bugger out in a jiff!..... or is that Jiffy-pop?

 

[aeronca65t]

Cool metal melter! Love stuff like that!

Guys: I always use a left-handed drill bit with the electric drill in reverse.

This tends to loosen the broken stud and it will often "unscrew" as you are drilling. Even if it doesn't come out, this may help loosen it a bit more before using the extractor (and I have to say, I'm not a real big fan of extractors.......if they break off, you're really up the creek without a paddle).

And yes, RIck....when we were heading up to the F1 races at The Glen back in the '60s and '70s, the sign for Horseheads always meant we were close.
Actually, we *still* go up that weekend; our VRG event is held on the old F1 weekend.
I'm sad that next year we won't be able to go up due to Fall paving at The Glen.

 

[PAUL161]

Cool metal melter! Love stuff like that!

Guys: I always use a left-handed drill bit with the electric drill in reverse.

This tends to loosen the broken stud and it will often "unscrew" as you are drilling. Even if it doesn't come out, this may help loosen it a bit more before using the extractor (and I have to say, I'm not a real big fan of extractors.......if they break off, you're really up the creek without a paddle).

And yes, RIck....when we were heading up to the F1 races at The Glen back in the '60s and '70s, the sign for Horseheads always meant we were close.
Actually, we *still* go up that weekend; our VRG event is held on the old F1 weekend.
I'm sad that next year we won't be able to go up due to Fall paving at The Glen.

Wrong post, Sorry. PJ

 

[DrEntropy]

Guys: I always use a left-handed drill bit with the electric drill in reverse.

Yup-yup!!! And a generous soaking in Weasel Pee for a day or two ahead of the deed. :wink:

 

[Banjo]

The best part of living in Horseheads is knowing I'm close the Glen....:friendly_wink: