Easily made trivet for large and small pots from 3mm steel rod Bend two circles. Braze one closed, and cut the other into three equal arcs. Braze in place and bend the overlaps down to fit over leg tops.
Nice! Very elegant. Puts me in mind of a Corona trivet. Gearing myself up to have a go a brazing for the first time. Something like this looks like a good starting project, if I may steal your idea!
@alcina Thank you. No problem in copying it. Nearly all my 'ideas' are obtained from this site and elsewhere - very few are original. All I do is show how I made them. Good luck with your brazing, there are lots of tips on this site and on the internet.
What does your brazing setup look like? How hot do you need to get brass for it to flow? Im curious because i would totally try and fix some busted brass coleman generators that have cracks..
I use silver braze. For this application away from the stove flame I use Silverflo 55 brazing rod which melts at about 630-660C. I use easyflo flux and an air- propane torch
I see. I only ever used silver lead-free solder and a soldering iron.. need to try that out. thanks! And @snwcmpr , i've never quenched them under water. I tried methods that i saw for 'annealing' brass ammunition casings... im under the impression that dunking *steel* in water after being superheated will harden, but it's the reverse case for brass...?(meaning that would soften it) and that you need to slowly let it cool off, not quench it. But i'm unsure.
