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Hi Folks,
I made the dreaded dragonfly wing die that cuts a 6" wing and forms lines into it also. I melted together about half and half easy silver paste and staybrite solders to get a custom mix that will be sturdier than staybrite alone, and melt at a much lower temp. than the easy alone ( so that the die isn't too annealed). The problem with staybrite was that it deformed under extreme pressure and the design imprinting wires soldered to the wing die with it were slipping out of place. The new solder plus the fact that the wing forms at half the pressure of the butterfly- the butterfly wire designs are more complex. This was the first die the type of which I'm speaking, and it's wires were soldered with staybrite alone- should mean that the wing die wires won't slip. This is a xlg pancake die with 14 ga. iron round wire designs soldered to the cutting face of the die. I set it on a 1/4" black (80 ? duro.) pad in the press and after the part punches more pressure is added to form the lines. I hope my reverse explanation makes sense.
Lee , this supercedes (sp?) the similar email I sent you.
I'm glad to know that I'll be allowed to exercise the roast option now and then. Of course it's much more fun if you reciprocate.Hopefully more people will contribute because I get tired of talking to myself.......NOT.
I am working on a new hemisphere project using a sightly different method of drawing. You know those fun rounded conical plastic things where you drop a coin in, and as the coin winds it's way around and down it's rolling more and more horizontal?????? I can't think of the geometric name for that shape but it's also like a diagram of the space warp around a black hole........Anyway , this guy I met makes round door handles in 1/8" stainless steel by welding 2 domed halves together. He takes a disc and with a round domer punch pushes the disc down through this highly radiused cone shape form ( which has the proper size hole at the b

Fri Jun 11