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  1. Stuart Samuel

    Tips/Techniques welding cast!!

    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...
  2. Stuart Samuel

    Tips/Techniques welding cast!!

    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...
  3. Stuart Samuel

    Tips/Techniques welding cast!!

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

    Tips/Techniques welding cast!!

    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...
  5. Stuart Samuel

    Welcome to Westwood Metalworks, What is he building in there?

    My pleasure Dan, and thanks for the tour!
  6. Stuart Samuel

    CA-ON Decent Drill Bits?

    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...
  7. Stuart Samuel

    Blanchard / Surface grinding or just machining

    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)...
  8. Stuart Samuel

    Blanchard / Surface grinding or just machining

    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.
  9. Stuart Samuel

    Homemade cabbing machine from scrap.

    Already headed to Dan Dubeau, sorry! Should have edited the post.
  10. Stuart Samuel

    Homemade cabbing machine from scrap.

    We cut some glass tube at work with it, but I doubt it had seen use in the last twenty years before that, at least. I think the feed's meant to be the same. We rigged up a weight with some cord to run the tube through.
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