Its ok, to simply gauge your cuts by eye. 4. Cement Your PVC & Fittings PVC cement is not really like cement or glue, it is a special solvent designed to slightly dissolve the surface of the PVC pipe and fitting. Once the PVC components are assembled, the solvent evaporates, and the...
Copper is a great conductor of electricity and can be found inside wires and cables, but its durability is also excellent for things like water and oil pipes. If you find copper scrap, you are ready to sell it to your local scrap yard; it’s time to figure out how to separate it cor...
instead of just large, massive weights or use thick and thin weights. While on the scales, smaller pieces of weights makes it much easier to remove, add or juggle down to a pound or two. And always mark your weights so you'll know how much each one weighs. This way, it takes the ...
one 1 mil (.001 inch ) thick. It plated at a rate of approximately one foot per second on the machine shown. The finished tape was re-spooled onto conventional computer tape reels for computer data storage. This machine
molten weld here because you don't want that to fail. The pedal is made out of scrap steel and a short length of 1x1 square tubing with a hole drilled through the bottom in which to run a bolt through the frame. A nylock nut on the other side allows it to stay in place yet swive...
As far as dimensions, I prefer to use 0.1 or 0.15 mm thick nickel, and usually use a 7 or 8 mm wide strip. A stronger welder can do thicker strip, but will cost a lot more. If your welder can do 0.15 mm nickel strip then go for it; thicker is always better. If you have thin...
Cut the foam to the size you like. You can cut it quite small and still get a good range of resistance levels. The foam in this picture is cut to less than half an inch square and about 1/4 inch thick; once completed these two each produce a range of around 2.6K Ohms down to ...
to ? inch thick. The shells of the jacket are braced together by a large number of rivets, RR; and the top, or crown, is strengthened by heavy longitudinal girders riveted to it, or is braced to the top of the boiler by long bolts. A large number of fire-tubes (only three are ...