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So right that you felt compelled to post it twice?

 

Right effin' now.

 

Look who I found! Grumpyolddude and Mixed on the town!

 

I'm new to the forum but this is a really great idea to post from your phone's experiences. I'm running on a backup old HTC right now as I drowned my HTC 9, set it out to dry in Dad's shop and somebody stole it. Anyway my backup won't Mount the SD card but I'll be back in the game soon as my contract has expired. I'll be posting up soon enough, until then I'm digging around in your past.
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This is badass Omega! I'll be making a MAPP gas forge soon. A good friend works in a steel mill and brought me a nozzle of some sort that looks like a giant bullet. There's nothing wrong with it but as they make high grade steel if it doesn't pass the xray it doesn't get put back into production. It's about 18" tall and about 9" at it's fullest girth. It's fully refractory filled but has an ID of about 1 3/4 inches. Has a steel lining just like a pipe was shoved in there but that's from the pour. He also brought me about 5 lbs of a liquid refractory cement that they use between the bricks in the ladle. This ladle is about as big as my house. I think this nozzle came from a blow off valve or somesuch. Anyway it's ID is really limiting to what I can produce but obviously very efficient.

I'd love to be able to get this pipe-like plug out of the nozzle but don't see any way how to do that. It's clean steel. I mean think about a giant hollow point rifle round with a pipe shoved down in the center. The outer shell is some kind of serious steel, milled with refractory material in the middle. The refractory is not brittle. Just can't figure out how to get the "pipe" out of the middle.

This may be one of those things you just want to do so badly because of the given materials and then end up scrapping it in favor of something simpler. I can get all the refractory goop I need and burn out a mold out of whatever. It's just such a beautiful forge base that I keep wanting to go back to it.

On this forum how do we break out from these specific threads into things more oriented to the topic? New here.

 

It's Neil and Amanda's world. We just live in it.

 

That'd be The Who, right?

 

Seriously... you had to ask?


Roger and Pete on stage in Detroit on Saturday Night. Roger was in great voice after his recovery from meningitis this past fall. In their first show of this tour, after about 90 minutes of rockin' their asses off, the fatigue was evident on Roger's face. Still, they blasted through Baba O'Reilly and Won't Get Fooled again to close the show.

Pete was in a great mood and obviously have a lot of fun... more so than any other time I've seen the band, which is many, many times. He shared several stories of the band's experiences in Detroit, dating back to 1967 at Southfield High School, and was at his witty best. The energy with which he played was astounding for a Septuagenarian, more than the entire opening act put together.

 

I couldn't see it well on my phone, ha ha. It would have taken four bars for me to identify by sound. Forgive my aging eyes, sir

 

You can't hide
your aging eyes

So it's an Eagles song.......sue me .

 

Granted, it is potato-quality cell phone pic in non-optimal lighting conditions. Also, it was wrong of me to just assume that Daltry and Townsend are so iconic that they would be immediately recognized. I probably wouldn't recognize most performers popular during the past 25+ years, myself. To paraphrase Baba O'Riley (correct spelling, this time!): You don't need to be forgiven!

 

"...correct spelling..."

Many people think the song title is Teenage Wasteland.

 

True, it's one of those rare hit songs that never reference the title in the lyric.

But, the spelling in my original post betrays my immersion into the auto parts business.... too deep Ol' Grump needs to take more breaks.