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Instead of buying these items it would be cheaper to buy a small kiln with a crucible and appropiate handling tools and protection and simply buy a few cheap stainless steel fittings and melt them down to make your own bollards and rollors and anything else you want.
 
There is a George Clooney film called "The Men Who Stare at Goats"

Perhaps it's a simple misspelling or an "amusing" take on the title. There may even be a line in the film, I can't remember.
 
davidej said:
I wonder what this means every time I read his posts

I can find 'staring' and 'steering' in the dictionary but 'stearing' ? ?


But then, I can only find 'rollers' not 'rollors'.
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I asked Ben the same question a little while ago...

Each to their own and go easy on the chap. Its easy to misinterpret what some people say and life's too short...
 
Steve Clayton said:
Anyone else got the feeling that Ben is going for a record?

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Can't quite figure him out - his posts are, IMHO, a load of crap not to mention pointless. I get the feeling he is either senile, very lonely or both with an IQ in single figures. - now where has that ignore button gone?
 
cliff said:
Can't quite figure him out - his posts are, IMHO, a load of crap not to mention pointless. I get the feeling he is either senile, very lonely or both with an IQ in single figures. - now where has that ignore button gone?
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takes one to know one ;-)
 
Better way in stainless is fabrication like below.

Just some of my stainless fabricated fittings
 
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cliff said:
Can't quite figure him out - his posts are, IMHO, a load of crap not to mention pointless. I get the feeling he is either senile, very lonely or both with an IQ in single figures. - now where has that ignore button gone?
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Its under UserCp.. Edit ignore list.. Add.
Ben just made it onto my very short list.
He writes nothing but drivel.
 
cliff said:
Can't quite figure him out - his posts are, IMHO, a load of crap not to mention pointless. I get the feeling he is either senile, very lonely or both with an IQ in single figures.
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There have been a couple of posts recently that could seem deliberately inflammatory by someone who knows the forum in-jokes etc, so I'm nudging towards the suggestion by a couple of people that "he" is actually an alternate persona used by a forum regular for their own amusement.

Pete
 
You are deluding yourself if you think stainless steel is easy to work with either with fabrication or particularly casting.

There is a perefectly good reason for the prices of stainless items, particularly low volume or one offs that are common in boats. However, you will find some items, where volume justifies using industrialised manufacturing processes, are surprisingly cheap.
 
Ben Dockrell 22 said:
Instead of buying these items it would be cheaper to buy a small kiln with a crucible and appropiate handling tools and protection and simply buy a few cheap stainless steel fittings and melt them down to make your own bollards and rollors and anything else you want.
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If you can melt down and re-cast stainless fittings for that sort of money, the steel industry need you.

But if it was just a moan then Richard Wilson might want you as an understudy.
 
Ben Dockrell 22 said:
The stainless steel can be bought as solid rod and cut by hacksaw.


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-25-4mm-..._Metalworking_Supplies_ET&hash=item20c559b178
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Ben Ben Ben

Yes you can cut stainless with a good quality hack saw blade and I have done it more times than I can remember bit only up for about 8 - 10 mm.

Last week I made 8 attachment bosses from 20 mm dia solid bar to 25mm long and if I had cut that with a hack saw I would have used about 10 to 12 blades and would have taken me a week. I used and abrasive cut off saw and it too me about an hour. I then bored than out to 10.5 mm through all 25 mm. Would you use a hand drill to do that. I wouldn't in fact I used my lathe doing 2 passed.

The bow fitting I showed is made from 10mm thk 316 plate I had that plasmer cut and polished. Polishing is the hardest part of the job, yes you have it electro polished but it is no where as good as hand polishing. I would not attempt casting anything more that lead I would go to a specialist for that

I have a full engineering workshop and have been designing both electrical and mechanical since leaving school in 1962 and practised engineering in the UK and RSA as a C Eng for 25 - 30 years before doing low level computer programming and processor design until my retirement 2 years ago.

My latest project is fabricating a replacement 3 bladed 20" dis prop as my current bronze prop pitch is too big and unlike you in the UK the transport cost makes it cheaper to fabricate here.

There is a large amount of knowledge on this fora and you will soon be found out with statements like you have made re casting stainless steel but I don;t wish to be quite as blunt as Cliff was.
 
"There is a large amount of knowledge on this fora and you will soon be found out with statements like you have made re casting stainless steel but I don;t wish to be quite as blunt as Cliff was"

I dont understand this comment, its been taken out of the real context.

Also if stainless steel was that hard a job then powered steel could be mixed into an epoxy (some epoxies have been claimed to be harder than steel though steel has properties not found in epoxies (all depends on the desired results).
 
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