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That’s a great test! I’ve certainly had steel tube joints fail in the tube rather than the braze joint, but that’s even harder. I started out training as a goldsmith, which worked out well, in this respect. While there was any massive brazing work, there was lots of fine silver soldering, and...

While it’s less applicable here (maybe?), I’ve been setting aside a pile of scrap bits at work, broken castings especially, with different cross sections. My hope is that I’ll get to a point where I always have something at least vaguely similar to test a technique on, whether that’s welding...

I still think of that one as ‘Humpty Dumpty’ .

As others have noted, I’ve also had best results with torch brazing. Have done some field work with nickel stick electrodes, and have done some tig brazing. This is a cast collar from a post lantern outside Osgoode Hall, downtown Toronto (cast iron doesn’t like it when you back a truck into...

My pleasure Dan, and thanks for the tour!

Years ago we had a Canadian Tire set at work, that a manager picked up on sale. Sheet metal box, with multiples of everything. Except… they were junk. Bits sharpened backwards. Bits with the point split so far they had a little gouge where the point should be. I had one bit seize in a hole and...

There’s a lot to like, there. Small footprint, plenty of tonnage. It looks like there’s a switch on the left side for depth, with a sort of ‘bead’ to activate it. I think I’d miss the micrometer adjustment on our press at work, but that’s a manageable thing. Oh, to have my own full-sized shop…

I have a coworker who has a ‘morning meeting’ every day. As in, ‘Where’s _____? He’s at his morning meeting.’

More broadly, if anyone's looking for heavier steel cutting in the GTA, they're worth a call. CNC plasma and torch cutting, just heavy stuff (not sure what the thinnest they stock is, but I don't think they do sheet). One of those businesses with next to no advertising (that I've encountered)...

Give Oldershaw Steel a call. They’ll Blanchard grind up to, I think, 48” square. East end Etobicoke, near Royal York and Lakeshore. My recollection is they were pretty affordable.