From: Snag_one@msn.com   
      
   On 12/29/2025 5:33 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:   
   > On 12/29/2025 4:27 PM, Snag wrote:   
   >> On 12/29/2025 4:37 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> In my Christmas message I noted I wasn't going to make any molds in   
   >>> the shop until after the start of the New Year in spite of getting   
   >>> over a nasty bug   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> https://rumble.com/v73fphy-merry-christmas.html?mref=1sqt4y&mc=42lue   
   >>>   
   >>> or   
   >>>   
   >>> https://youtube.com/shorts/iHF7bt933SA?si=xB6vjptPNxCAdERA   
   >>>   
   >>> Well, that choice has resulted in a minor remission of another bug.   
   >>> My HSD (Horizontal Surface Disease) is improving in a couple   
   >>> different areas.  I can now see more than 60% of the surface of my   
   >>> welding table. Its still 90% obstructed, but I can see it.   
   >>>   
   >>> HSD is a horrible affliction, but I am working on long term   
   >>> mitigation factors for that as well.  Part of the reason for clearing   
   >>> off my welding table is to get back on making the storage cabinet   
   >>> work benches I've wanted along the back wall for a long time. I have   
   >>> most of the steel.  I have most of the drawer slides.  I have the   
   >>> steel top material.  I just need to clear up my HSD a little bit to   
   >>> get started.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >>    I suffer from that same affliction ... the first step in my case is   
   >> going to be to throw a bunch of stuff "I might use some day" away .   
   >> Then get all the usable steel scrap moved to the location most of the   
   >> big stuff is already at . Some of my scrap is aluminum that needs to   
   >> be converted to ingots . Haven't decided what to do with the   
   >> copper/brass/ bronze yet .   
   >   
   >   
   > Copper can be converted to aluminum bronze which can make a decent plane   
   > bearing material.   
   >   
   > Bronze is bronze, and brass can of course be cast into other brass  parts.   
   >   
   > Beware of zinc fumes.   
   >   
   >   
      
     BTDT and it sucked . I'm more careful now .   
   --   
   Snag   
      I appreciated foreign cultures more   
   when they stayed foreign ...   
      
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