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Re: Home made weight bricks and train base plates
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lugnet.parts.mod
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Thu, 19 Aug 2004 00:31:19 GMT
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In lugnet.parts.mod, Mark Bellis wrote:
> I see the melting point of standard solder (63% tin, 37% lead) is 183 deg C. If
> I held a soldering iron and a reel of solder over an invered brick and dripped
> molten solder into the brick, would the brick melt?
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> Would it make any difference if I put the brick on a tray with 3mm of cold water
> in it (or just enough so that the brick didn't float), as a heatsink?
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> I just thought this would be an easy solution as solder is readily available.
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> Mark
Unfortuneatly the drips of solder would not stick to each other, so unless you
put a few drops of glue in afterwards to hold it all togather, you'd loos you
weights. But this isn't a bad solution. It would fill the brick near solid, and
the poison would be incapsulated.
Mat
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| (...) Yes, always wash your hands after handling solder! (...) I see the melting point of standard solder (63% tin, 37% lead) is 183 deg C. If I held a soldering iron and a reel of solder over an invered brick and dripped molten solder into the (...) (20 years ago, 18-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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