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(11-24-2014, 12:59 PM)awemawson Wrote: [ -> ]Looking very nice Rob !

Not come across EN3876 before - is that a stainless steel?

Nope just taking the piss , I just made it up Andrew    , I think the bar is plane old HRMS , smells like it anyway .



Thanks Dave and Ed    


Rob 

(11-24-2014, 01:06 PM)RobWilson. Wrote: [ -> ]Nope just taking the piss , I just made it up Andrew    , I think the bar is plane old HRMS  , smells like it anyway .

Thanks Dave and Ed    

Rob 

No wonder Mr Google came back with nothing when I searched on EN3876 steel. Good one!

Ed

36 grit can be used in the Arctic Circle, so I don't know what they're talking about with that North America baloney! In civilized North America, 36 grit is not used because 36 is 6 times 6 and that makes it the devil's sandpaper.

EN3876 is steel with small additions of Kryptonite and tempered to a light straw in a cup of Paradoxorus coffee before drinking.

Sheesh.....never heard of it, indeed.....

(12-02-2014, 07:19 PM)vtsteam Wrote: [ -> ]36 grit can be used in the Arctic Circle, so I don't know what they're talking about with that North America baloney! In civilized North America, 36 grit is not used because 36 is 6 times 6 and that makes it the devil's sandpaper.

That's only true South of the Mason Dixon Line. 

dixon is my last name

Given you are from the UK I'll assume you are unaware of the significance of the Mason-Dixon line in the US.

From Wikipedia:

In popular usage, the Mason–Dixon line symbolizes a cultural boundary between the North and the South (Dixie). After Pennsylvania abolished slavery, it served as a demarcation line for the legality of slavery. That demarcation did not extend beyond Pennsylvania because Delaware, then a slave state, extended north and east of the boundary. Also lying north and east of the boundary was New Jersey, where slavery was formally abolished in 1846, but former slaves continued to be "apprenticed" to their masters until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1865. The Missouri Compromise line had a much clearer geographic connection to slavery in the United States leading up to the Civil War.[24]

More about it can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason%E2%80%93Dixon_line or just Google the phrase Mason-Dixon Line.

Even though we sort of share a common language there are numerous cultural differences. Kinda like when I was in Australia and requested a "dime in exchange for two nickles" from a shop keeper. She had no idea as to what I was talking about, but when I changed it to a "ten cent piece for two 5 cent pieces" she understood fully. I later learned those are the proper terms for the Australian coins.

Evening Lads 

Thought I would do a bit more to this project today , I fabricated the square to round transition piece for the end of the blower and also welded on a bolt flange . 






I think I will get cracking and finish the air flow valve next 


Cheeeeers Rob 

Rob,

Is that flange SS or is that your shiny metal camera at work?

Ed

  Stainless Ed , any fool can get a finish on it 


Rob 

Hi Rob, superb quality workmanship, but I hope you are going to put a speed control on the fan, or there will be red hot coke flying up the chimney!! I have an old school Allday (literally, it came from an old school) which put my back out lifting the tuyere and tank of the back of my truck. It is in a corner awaiting ressurection.
Phil