Walter - I think that you'll break your press before you compress any tungsten. It's pretty hard stuff.
Have you checked with CMW in Indianapolis? They are a company that specializes in tungsten alloys for uses like ballast. You don't really want pure tungsten, get one of their alloys with a couple percent copper and nickel so you can machine it. There are other metals that are even heavier than tungsten, but they start getting expensive and in some cases dangerous. happy trails - Rob Glover Thanks for the response. Several brought up a good point saying after you mix powder w/epoxy/etc you may not gain much over lead which may be right. How about opinions on an idea I had. Get some brass tube, silver braze a brass plate(thin) on to one end, grind it down to the contour of the tube. I have a hydraulic press. I was thinking about the pouring some powder into the open end of tube I prepared, compress it down with the press, add some more powder, press it down, etc, etc til I fill the tube, I would then seal the end with some filler, or could even, providing the tungsten doesnt react to heat, just braze a end cap on it like I did to the opposite end. What do you think? Walter RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
