<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Greg Freemyer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:greg.freemyer@gmail.com">greg.freemyer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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For the last 24-months there's been a shortage of tinfoil. Oh.., wait<br>
a second, after the election they quit buying tinfoil and started<br>
buying bullets instead, so maybe you can still find tinfoil.</blockquote><div> </div><div>The price of lead foil has shot up almost as crazy as gold. Maybe there's a connection....<br><br>If you can actually _find_ real tin foil, get ready for sticker shock! I have a set of solid coppr pots that one has a bad scratch in the tin linning I want to fix. The solution is to do the flux, apply heat and melt in a bit of tin foil into the scratch. I found a 1m square of tin foil was about $12. The same amount of aluminum is about $.30. So I'm using a silver-bearing, no lead tin solder (no cadmium or other funky metals either) 1% silver and 99% tin that cost $4 for a small spool. Now to build a gonzo charcoal fire to keep the pot hot while using the torch on the specific area...<br>
</div></div>-- <br>-- <br>James P. Kinney III<br>Actively in pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness <br>Doing pretty well on all 3 pursuits <br><br> Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.<br>
Dan Barker, "Losing Faith in Faith", 1992 <br><br>