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MickIt is just a steel plate, roughly a half inch is good, but anything flat is fine. Cast iron would be perfect as long as it is flat.I have a heavy layout table, and would likely use that, because it doesn't harm the table. I supose a porceline enamel appliance side might work too, doing some dump diving. It is just a flat surface that can handle 600F or so.Use the flat iron bars so you keep the thickness even.You can use an electric melting pot, a steel tin can with welded seams to melt lead in. A used store stainless steel cooking pot will do just fine, heating it on a hot plate. Use your own ideas as it is not hard to melt lead.After you make a bunch, you can solder weld them together with a good big soldering iron and a strip of lead that can be a plate, simply sheared up.You can also just buy pure lead sheet.It is used to make walls in sound studios, cand can be bought in rolls of various thicknesses. Using recycled batteries is attractive but requires good out of doors space, away from kids and animals. Hot lead is still heavy, and try not to spill it on yourself, as it will really be nasty. I am used to casting metals, so I am trying to think of folks attempting this for the first time. Lead is fairly easy, and predictable except pouring in a damp plaster mold where the steam can make it blow and splatter up in the air, dangerously.Cheers Warren
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On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 9:02 PM, Mick [email protected] [EVGRAY]<[email protected]> wrote:
Warren,
That's far out, you were blessed to meet such an interesting character. With a name like that I was cued for a Mr Natural story.
Do you know who makes good lead acid now? The only recommendation I get is the Trojan golf cart ones. SO the steel connects the plates, is that hot or cold rolled?
What is a Nitrogen powered sub, how does that work?
How does the degausser work, this really peaks my interest! What size was it and did just placing it midships would degauss the whole vessel?
On 6/24/2018 3:29 PM, Warren Keillor [email protected] [EVGRAY] wrote:
Mick
Yup! Real deep cycle batteries are at least 1/8" thick plates, some even 3/16", though most called deep cycle are just paper thin. You can cast your own from melted down car batteries on a steel plate mold, with steel bar stock edges. I haven't done it myself, but my friend Mr Hipp did. ( Mr Hipp designed the radio control V2 buzz bombs, the nitrogen powered submarine, and the 3 engined Messersmit before being brought to Canada to work on the Avro Arrow. He was layed off when Eisenhower talked our prime minister into buying Non functional Bomark missiles instead of the fastest jet in the World, at that time. Mr Hipp didn't go to the States to work on the Appolo project like most of his co-workers He then built a machine shop across the street from where I later started my special effect business. We became friends, and he, my engineering machine shop mentor. His most famous line being" when I vas a boy in Germany, there vas no crime, you could leave your bicycle anywhere.")
I never once knew him to tell a lie. He gave me a degausser able to demagnitize my entire 33 ton ship,which was made from cobalt alloy steel, when I discovered the compass wouldn't work Yes, and taught me how to make lead acid batteries, just like the German U boats. Cheers Warren
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On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 11:56 AM, Mick [email protected] [EVGRAY] <[email protected]> wrote:
Warren,
Have you ever pulled lead acid batteries apart and compared them? Curious if there is more to the deep cycle than the larger plates and more robust connections between plates.
On 6/24/2018 8:13 AM, Warren Keillor schoonersolsticemoon@yah
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https://www.veteranstoday.com/2018/06/23/nikola-tesla-and-albert-einstein/
I found this interesting, and thought you might too. It is also interesting where it is emerging from. Cheers Warren
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