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Posted by Tim Shoppa on April 23, 2008, 1:13 pm
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On Apr 23, 12:05=A0pm, Spehro Pefhany
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:23:23 -0700 (PDT), the renowned Tim Shoppa
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> >> Tungsten has a *really* high melting point (6192?=B0F), and uranium is =
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> >> high as well (2070=B0F). =A0In anything, you'd need a chunk large enoug=
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> >> machine down to size.
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> >Again, I was hoping to get some random scrap that could go into a can
> >or bucket pretty densely.
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> >>=A0What's your price range on this project?
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> >Don't want to pay too much more than lead, but I'll pay a little more.
> >Lead scrap sold for fishing weights at the junkyard seems to be $2 a
> >pound, and I'd pay more for denser metals than lead, so max price I'd
> >like to pay for 20 pounds of denser stuff would be circa very low
> >hundreds of $.
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> >Like I said, I am looking for scrap, not machining down from billet!
> >With scrap I could contemplate trying to pack it all into a little
> >pint-size can, without having to melt it down or do too much cutting.
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> >Tim.
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> Maybe some junk tungsten carbide bits cast into a Pb matrix?
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> 15.6 g/cm^3 for tunsten carbide
> 11.3 g/cm^3 for lead
Ahah, that starts to sound like a good possibility!
Where could I find 15 or 20 pounds worth of junk tungsten carbide bits
for cheap?
Tim.
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