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Bee's wax. I have a glue pot filled wih wax. I melt it on a paraffin stove and dip the ends in.

I have built a few. From old fire extinguishers. One in process of being assembled. Not the best image. The brackets are arranged so any pot or pan that is placed on them is raised up to allow the stove to keep burning. The first burn is not nice. It burns of the paint and the...

They are hard to find as an item them self. You do find very cheep vices on E bay and car boots. A lever can be made to fit your vice, even from a broken forign item.

I turn them into wind chimes. Or I take them back to the out let I buy them from.

Car Battery charger. Old computer PSU. Or if you find one a CCTV PSU. I have used them all at on stage or another.

Sanding sealer after a good sanding. Then a good hard wax.

This, below is what can be done with a home set up. This hammer was cast at home. I worked my way through, making coke, charcoal. Melting alloy, very easy. Copper. Nice to do. Brass, need to watch the temp, very close. Ferrous. A few mishaps, like melting to bottom of the furnace. Ooops...

Casting sand. Take a small hand full in your hand a squeeze into a ball. Your hand should be clean, the ball should then break under firm hand pressure with out and crumbs. Plus be a clean break. When filling the mould. Dust the pattern with dry chalk. You want it fully covered. sieve the sand...

Electrolysis in action. Tis was a retaining pin for a workshop door. Citric acid in use. The results. Dried with a blow torch and waxed. Power tools, used to clean up this vice. To this.

If you want to do other stuff as it de rusts. Citric acid. 1tablespoon per Ltr. Warm/hot water will speed the action up. But I don't bother. I just submerge and leave. But faster is electrolysis. I use washing soda. One heeped table spoon per ltr. Cheep battery charger and leave it. With the...

Open. 1/'4 turn and unlocked.

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https://www.namrick.co.uk/ This place has never let me down. They have more than they list on the web page.

Stem launch deck seat. You can see them on Lake Windermere. The hand grab is to help in getting up in rough weather. Or gripping tight in rough weather. Normally slatted in beech.

Bristol Batteries will do a suitable replacement.

I do. Last lot I boiled up was in a meat pan on top a 1942 Burmos stove.

When the metal is done take out and dry well. I use a hot air blower, gas torch or a paraffin torch. On lumps of metal like vices or horseshoes when it is warm rub in wax and oil to seal it. I use scrap ferrous metal. Not Stainless. From break discs to rebar off cuts. I leave the end clear of...

1table spoon per litre of water as a start. Adjust the anodes to start the process. But if the anodes are with in 1" of the material to be de-rusted (@12vdc) Add more. But be prepared to watch for a jump in current draw.