My dad made a 1/2” copper coil about 4 foot long to fit in an 8” flue to heat water using the sand. He was one clever bugger. Fitted to a small chip heater, fired with waste oil. Emery thing glowed...
Liked On: 17-08-2022, 01:57 PM
Make sure the sand is DRY:)
Liked On: 17-08-2022, 01:57 PM
All wetback units I have seen have been bits of straight pipe with the corners done using two 90degree elbows, all silfos'd together. As long as the copper pipe is always full of water the silfos...
Liked On: 17-08-2022, 01:56 PM
Copper tig welds really well, but welding with silfoss will be fine. If you get it hot enough in use to melt silfoss you’ll have other problems to worry about.
Liked On: 17-08-2022, 01:56 PM
You can fill it with sand and heat and bend, or use a plumbers spring if yo can find one of that diameter
Liked On: 17-08-2022, 01:56 PM
If you don’t like the action, I ll buy it of you before it get molested :-)
Liked On: 17-08-2022, 01:50 PM
Looks good. I'd stick with the BLO too. If it was end grain then it might be worth sealing more thoroughly, but otherwise you might as well match the exterior for water resistance. Idle musing...
Liked On: 17-08-2022, 01:47 PM
Boiled linseed will be fine - mix a tiny amount of turps with first coat-linseed will soak in better - suggest light sand first to remove any dirt etc
Liked On: 17-08-2022, 01:46 PM
Current finish is Boiled linseed oil.:( It's what I had.) Top Rifle 203751
Liked On: 17-08-2022, 01:46 PM
Both those stocks look so bloody great.
Liked On: 17-08-2022, 01:22 PM
Van Gruff...you posted while I was typing...and what posted goes for you too........WOW.
Liked On: 17-08-2022, 01:21 PM
WOW...... that is gorgeous....hard to say it any other way,you are a talented man ,that rifle is a thing of beauty and will be family heirloom for generations to enjoy....... many years from now a...
Liked On: 17-08-2022, 01:21 PM
I like cant as well as cast when building my own stocks https://i.imgur.com/NG5wwknl.jpg This was a superb blank I bought in from the US and with so much burl and grain changes was done primarily...
Liked On: 17-08-2022, 01:20 PM
And so after 89 1/4 hours of planing, chiselling, scraping, sanding and much thinking and looking, here is what I have. This is after the first ‘base coat’ of oil, which now needs to dry a couple of...
Liked On: 17-08-2022, 01:20 PM
I decided with this one to try a bit of cast and cant. All my previous stocks have been straight, so this is something new. 184015 I gave it 3/16 cast-off, and 1/8” cant or toe out. Works well...
Liked On: 17-08-2022, 01:18 PM