Rick, when I was a teen, my dad bought an appliance repair business in a small town. I made soda & comicbook money repairing toasters and toaster ovens using a monel splice. We had a box of them, cost about a nickle apiece. I charged $3 for a repair, as it was too much trouble (to him) for my dad to do them. The splices were just a half-inch long tube of monel, and we crimped them over the ends of the broken element. Fluxing them, and using MAPP or acetylene might not be a bad idea, but just the crimp lasted at least a year.
The toaster and such didn't get as hot, nor stay hot as long, as a furnace or kiln element, but it would be worth trying if you could find some of those splices. I've googled them to no effect, so far, but just started looking tonight. They were tubes about the size of a cheap ballpen refill, and only a little more difficult to crimp than the cheap copper splice connectors from HF & the like.
I did repair my heatgun by twisting the broken wires together, and nipping off the excess. So far, so good. I ran it on high for 30 minutes or so while heatshrinking the splices on my old welder's power inputs.
Might be a waste of time, might help.
Bill in OKC
--- In gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Sparber" <rgsparber@...> wrote:
>
> CT2,
>
> I agree. After my one burn through, my repaired element has been fine. You
> can't just go from cold to 100% and walk away.
>
> Rick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Brite
> Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2011 4:16 PM
> To: gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [gingery_machines] Re: My first casting
>
> Hello Dave,
>
> My furnace is similar to Gingery's Lil Bertha, but follows Dan Hartman's
> design.
>
> Advantages: quiet, electricity is cheap in my area, no exhaust (but
> sometimes smoke from melting) so maybe less hydrogen in melt, and good
> control of heat.
>
> Disadvantages: slow, gotta have 220 so not portable, and worst thing -
> elements can fail in middle of melt! Element life gets better as you learn
> to start & end more slowly and not to overheat so much.
>
>
> Hope it helps
> CT2
>
>
>
>
> --- In gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com, "DaveSSI" <davegsc@> wrote:
> >
> > Electricity? What sort of set-up do you have, Brite? What are the
> > advantages?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > From: gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com
> > [mailto:gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Brite
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 8:31 PM
> > To: gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [gingery_machines] Re: My first casting
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hello, Congrats, and Welcome to the illness!!
> >
> > The lathe bed casting is a bit challenging, so a real accomplishment on
> the
> > 1st try.
> >
> > I melt w/ electricity, prolly even slower than charcoal, so won't weigh in
> > on burners.
> >
> > CT2
> >
> > --- In gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com
> > <mailto:gingery_machines%40yahoogroups.com> , "primepowerpro"
> > <randycook@> wrote:
> > >
> > > 1. I poured my first casting today, Gingery's lathe bed. I used homemade
> > green sand,
>
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