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is as is fused or soldered?


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could not imagine solderd expect fused.. but will stand corrected.
I have got heaps here, the really old stuff looks soldered and is way stronger than the cheap stuff think just twisted and galv like I said prev.


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Hi Steve,
Good question.
I think chicken wire is soldered as it`s easy to unravel.
Mesh (hardware cloth) doesn`t come apart without some serious abuse.
so my guess is it`s probably welded in some way.


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i ask becasue the intersections have lovely spheres............

will have to test one day, try to melt junction with a soldering iron.............if they are soldered then i'd put them no where near an AP system...........


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extreme heat from fires doesn't stuff it, having used this method in the past to be able to re-use it after vines etc have grown all thru it.
suggest not soldered


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cool then. lead very bad :)

hmmmm, fire proof you reckon? but is it STEVE fire proof?


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Steve, I took our early experiments on burning snack foods a bit further, pretty much all savoury snack foods seem to burn very well, potato chips and corn chips were just as good as cheetos, twisties and cheesles... :D


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yes, i dumped a bag of tato chips in the fire on the weeked, WOW! :shock:

i have a week off after the wedding before the HM, will play with all manner of things ;) might make up a little 2 minute noodle boiler from two tin cans and a packet of twisties :)


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Thats how you set up a calorimeter, you set fire to foods under a dish of water. Theoretically I calorie can heat 1 ml of water by one degree...


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yeh, we worked on the Kj per packet of twisties and the specific heat of water when lighting fires at EB's place ;)


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I bet there was very little science going on, more like the pyromanic coming out.

Hey Steve and others... it looks like I and J possibly K rocket motors will become legal in Australia. However you will need to sit a test to have a license. The challenge this year is to get a model rocket to mach 1 and measure it. Muhahaha!


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memories...................i played around with i think D types when i was what, 14?.........fun :) and we mounted two to a RC car LOL. wall all fun except they were the ones with the ejection charge.............the thrust made them point down towards the RC car chassis (i guess a roll of masking tape was not the prefered anchoring................needless to say that the owner of the car was not happy with melted servos.................lol ;)


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If you want the ultimate in fun mount a truck tire using a can of starting fluid. You don't have to use a lot of it! I know of one guy who sent a 24 inch tire and rim (over two hundred pounds) through a tin roof about 20 feet above the floor!

The hex wire we have here is galvanized light gauge wire, twisted together, with stay wires at the top, bottom and periodically through the body. Hardware cloth is welded together during the weaving process, and then hot dipped into the zinc coating to galvanize it.

Back to the idea of the galvanized tanks; we routinely use galvanized tanks to hold fish (usually bait fish and crayfish) before sale. I saw one site where that was what the host/webmaster was recommending. The thing I have noticed with them is that if they ever develop a leak it will be at the drain opening, in the bottom or along the seam between the side and the bottom. In some of these cases you can remedy them using tar, but if the leak is too big you can always line the tank with some sort of pond liner.

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