Do it Yourself: Re: [DIY] New Toys-2

13 June 2013

Re: [DIY] New Toys-2

Well now Jan I may not be the brightest bulb on the string, but I did insure that Mama got all of her new toys first. She has said for years that she did not care now many tools I had as long as I put them to use.. She may have regretted that statement at times, but I do indeed use them and when she asks whether I might be able to build this or that I can usually comply, but that has not always been the case.. We started our married journey with every thing we owned on one side of an old station wagon with no heater in the early spring, we slept on the other side one at a time as we drove, and attained our ultimate destination in Grand Forks, North Dakota with only a jar of pennies to our name. I had a chest of hand tools and she had a few items of cook ware. Don't ask us why North Dakota because neither of us had ever been there nor did we have friends and family there as well, it just must have been a GOD thing.

Dale in the Flatlands. "Why waste time learning when ignorance is instantaneous."

Jan Flood wrote:

I think this is why everyone on the list loves you Dale, we can vicariously play with all your new toys. I couldn't in my wildest imagination think of a need for this but darned if it doesn't make my heart beat faster thinking about it, LOL. You must lead a charmed life getting to play with all these new, innovative toys.

Jan

>>On Jun 11, 2013, at 7:54 PM, Dale S <dalu@hbcomm.net> wrote:

The need to cut and weld different metal thicknesses quite accurately led me on a search for something better than my stick welder and acetylene torch. I started out with a wire welder but did not like all of the splatter and of course I was still left without cutting capability except mechanic grind or saw or my acetylene torch, neither of which I really cared for. While viewing a site called Woodgears which is hosted by an extremely talented young Canadian engineer, I saw a link for this thing call "Multiplaz" which was invented in Russia and has been available in Europe and Asia for the past 10 years. It supposedly will cut steel, stainless, aluminum, brick, glass, ceramic tile, quartz glass and probably concrete as well. Plus it will weld any and all metals even in many cases those that are dissembler such as steel to cast or stainless, copper, aluminum, etc, and the only consumable is water and a 50-50 mix of water and rubbing alcohol, no shielding gas except in the case of titanium which is certainly out of my league. No fumes to boot.