Ahoy Gentlemen,
I read somewhere that soap has ingredients that damage wood; beeswax or paraffin is better. Personally, I use wax wire that is used by jewelers to make sprues when casting by lost wax method. It comes in spools like safety wire. I get it from Jan but you can buy it from Rio Grande jewelry supply. They also sell a stick of wax jewelers use to lubricate their saw blades. I always drill pilot and clearance holes and put a little piece of the wax wire into the hole before setting the screw. I found that if I just rub wax on the screw threads it gets wiped off as the screw goes into the wood. I use stainless sheet metal screws for wood fasteners. I got my gallon of Moly Dee (not Moly-B) years ago while in Charleston from a supply house in Colombia SC but I just Googled it and the following URL has it for $18 for a 16 oz can. http://www.nolansupply.com/bysubcategory.asp?category=Fluids+and+Lubes&supercategory=Tapping+Fluids&subcategory=Moly-Dee+Tapping+Fluid&type=False&specs=True Welding through a nut is a new one for me, thanks Steve. We should start a collection of these tips: "The Livaboard List Book of Wisdom" Moly-Dee and wire wax have done well for me. How about tying a knot in the positive wire, (or a red tie wrap if it is too big for a knot). The wire spacer method for making a perfect form-in-place gasket. A paragraph or three on diesel fuel systems. I wonder if there is a way to have an on-line data base that we could simply add to, like Wikipedia? ---------- Driving screws into a bar of soap before putting them in wood, welding through a nut to put a head onto a broken bolt, waxing a saw blade, using "monkey dung" for holding any screw to a screwdriver and using Moly-B to drill stainless... thousands of these things that make up a very solid base of knowledge, and I'm truly grateful to all those "blue-collar wizards". (Which reminds me - thanks again for the "lifetime supply" of Moly-B, Norm! I was wondering where I could find some...) Steve W _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
