@Espen Lothe, 40% silver will be fine, might be a higher melting point, though.
Trick to using larger rods is cut off a small bit and put it where you want the braze. Keeps one from melting too much rod into the joint - what's...
@Blackdog , here in the US, the lines are a bit more defined. Silver soldering uses a silver alloy to join metals, same or dissimilar. Brazing is...
@Remus1956 , A&H out your way used to have many parts for out imported stoves, they closed their doors many years ago, sad to say. St Paul...
I'm paying $9.00 each for jets from St. Paul Mercantile, work well by my tests.
@Matthew Parunak , pick any color you'd like, not like these are that rare. Myself? I'd shoot the found with a light coating of black epoxy spray...
@Matthew Parunak , don't you mean a M1950 army stove?
@asentaja , the oderant is ethyl mercaptan, use hydrogen peroxide to remove it from the tank. Ethanethiol - Wikipedia Murph
They moved the shut-off valve on the 501A. Murph
@Dutchmike, those aren't wedges, they're two different sizes of flat-bladed screwdrivers built into the open wrench. Making less do more, I'd say....
So, in checking my spares before leaving on holiday, I found a need, not pressing, but needed just the same, for some spare jets for my Monitor...
Old watchmaker's trick. Using nitric acid to dissolve broken drill bits and taps in aluminium works a treat as well! Murph
@Tron, the trick is to use a block of copper on the backside of the weld. The sheet metal is kept cool by the block to prevent burn through. Murph
@IRM, it's spinning, the tube is sharpened, and it acts as a rotary knife blade! Scary to see how fast that works! Murph
I'll run a sharpened piece of brass tubing to cut the inner hole, and a sharpened sleeve over the tube to cut the outer diameter, and run it in a...
@Scrambler, flippin' right I've no love of MSR stoves. Everytime you take something apart/put together, you risk losing parts,you're all but...
Anytime you have to take apart and put something together, parts can get lost or jammed, bent or broken - And that takes ANYTHING MSR makes off...
If I were on my cycle, first order would be to bin anything made by MSR. More bits to lose, seals to go to blazes, in short, trash of the first...
@CW, it's what I use, sets the bar for everything else. Kroil works, everything else..... Murph
@IRM , basically what you've made is Ed's Red Bore Cleaner. Makes a tolerable penetrating oil, but there are much better compounds for this need....
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