[AT] If a manifold

[Mattias Kessén]

Ignore & delete, please stick around. What will be the remainants(sp?) of
this list if people keeps quitting because of bad manors and inability to
live with the fact that there can be more than one way to do things.

Mattias


2007/1/30, Ken Knierim <ken.knierim at gmail.com>:
>
> I agree with Charlie... Stick around, Gene. The "delete" key is your
> friend. :)
>
> Ken in AZ
>
> On 1/30/07, charlie hill <chill8 at suddenlink.net> wrote:
> > Don't do that Gene.  Just ignore it.
> >
> > Charlie
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "kgw" <gwaugh at wowway.com>
> > To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <
> at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> > Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 10:54 PM
> > Subject: Re: [AT] If a manifold
> >
> >
> > > Well, when Walt was being an ass, I posted a note that got me a
> personal
> > > note from Spencer, so I'm not going to do that here----will just
> leave.
> > > Bye to all the neat folks out there, it's always a shame to keep
> seeing
> > > how one bad apple keeps rotting the whole bin.
> > >
> > > Gene Waugh
> > >
> > > Kevin wrote:
> > >> we know he hasn't brazed a
> > >> manifold.  Visible red shows up just a little over 900 F.  An engine
> with
> > >> ------------------------------------
> > >> Now i use a combine manifold off a (715/705 dont rember was a 301
> engine
> > >> that went on freinds pulling 460) on our Farmall M, and one of the
> end
> > >> ears were broke but the peice was still there. So i got the big idea
> that
> > >> i could save $$$ by brazing it.  I used lots of Borax mule powder a
> vice
> > >> and propane scrappers cutting torch, bronze rod 3/16"
> > >> Well before I could bolt it on it had to visit the machine shop to
> cut it
> > >> true again ( wish i new abt that goop or glue)
> > >> $80 dollars and i could bolt it on.
> > >> I dont see why anyone thats ever done much of anything couldnt braze
> a
> > >> manifold or any iron object.
> > >> Now one that will really make you literaly make ya pull your hair is
> a
> > >> skillet
> > >> Once in awhile i get to an auction, and they was a Wagner Sydney,
> Ohio
> > >> square skillet in a box of smuge pots that i won bid on.
> > >> I throw the skillets in a hot fire to clean out whatever thr PO had
> used
> > >> it for.
> > >> after abt 15 minutes that thing poped like a gunshot. It was the
> skillet
> > >> poped a crack across the middle 3/4 way and open crack 1/2 inch. If
> you
> > >> think fixing a manifold is hard for whatever reason, you need to try
> a
> > >> skillet. thinking about that skillet, im gonna get out a dozen eggs
> and
> > >> scramble them up in a minute throw in about 1/2 # of cheese and fry
> up a
> > >> couple pounds of jawmeat, pan of biscuits. and a quart of elderberry
> > >> jelly some goat milk butter. Gettin low on cholestrol :-)
> > >> A 3 1/2hp Briggs lawnmower engine will approach 1700f  if ya take off
> the
> > >> muffler, unhitch the governor fillit with gas and start it up let it
> run
> > >> wide open for 15 minutes if its still running. Theres a good chance
> it
> > >> may even be hotter than 1700. and you should know  about
> aluminum  after
> > >> pouring those toy flywheels, I can melt about 1/2 gallon of aluminum
> at a
> > >> time in 10-15 minutes with a little coal an a vacume cleaner.
> > >> So the Briggs has alumnium alloy piston aluminum block, head so why
> dont
> > >> it melt the head ? If i had a theromometer that register 2000+ i
> would do
> > >> it now just to see. IF  IF IF>> Is spencer let Walt back on the list
> ?
> > >> I seen where someone was talking about him Walt was one that told me
> not
> > >> to throw the combine manifold away, to fix it.
> > >> He was right it worked, just no way around the machine shop.
> > >> So I kinda bought it anyways in the long run.
> > >> I am mighty proud you can braze cast by yourself.
> > >> Dont let others implicate that you cant do nothing, just do it.
> > >> a broken ear to fix is easy, a crystlized rusted through, casting is
> > >> nothing left to braze to. Gotta glue and bake and hope an pray that
> it
> > >> wont burn that glue up, i seen some type material that is supposed to
> > >> take the heat and turn like toilet bowl material when baked. an may
> hold
> > >> if it werent right in front of one of the ex ports. At 2000 rpm there
> is
> > >> a lot of pressure mixed in the heat even on a 123
> > >> I gotta get them egg and bacon frying
> > >> Wish yall the best with the manifold !
> > >>
> > >> Ironman
> > >> Kevin Mosier
> > >> 270-388-4052
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