Recent content by BLB

All good ideas, thank you gentlemen, Brian

Something me and all my workmates witnessed; the apprentice at work was doing a 'perk job'; a personal job for himself during working hours...he was filing a piece of stainless steel panel ,held in the vise , and the file 'slipped' causing a deep laceration to his right wrist. Trip to the ED to...

In my shed I've got numerous machine tools and parts made of cast iron; lathes, mill, tool & cutter grinder, compressor, and related parts; chucks, dividing heads, rotary tables, tooling etc.etc. Getting into winter again down here [in New Zealand], and often times all this gear is literally...

Yes, indeed, you can use a carbide burr instead of a file. The important thing is to have absolutely no abrasive lodged into the prepared surface.

The secret to successfully brazing [bronze welding] cast iron is to FILE the surfaces to be brazed. sandblasting/grinding etc permits abrasive particles to penetrate the surface of the iron which prevents the molecular bonding we wish to occur from taking place. By all means, grind, sandblast...

Hi, Brian here from New Zealand. Just another old fart, into junk that's even older!