[Jewelry making - Article 00527] - Re: [Orchid] Making your own Charcoal blocks

[Noel Yovovich]

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>     Okay, a soldering pad goes underneath it, yes. If you are setting
>     up your place at home you could see if there is a pottery/kiln
>     place near you and get some fire bricks. 

    This seems like a good time to reiterate-- a really cheap way to
    cover a surface with fire-proof material is to use a piece of cement
    board from a home center or lumber yard. This is used under tile
    floors, and I bought a scrap at Home Depot for a couple of bucks
    (you sure don't need a whole 8' x 4' piece, unless you want to lay
    it on the floor under your bench). It has little bubble holes in it,
    but it is cheap, fire-proof, cuttable with a box knife... and it
    absorbs and neutralizes spilled acid! 

    My "bench" is an ancient oak office desk, and I covered the whole
    top with this stuff. My soldering pad or fire brick sits on that,
    and when I use a charcoal block (really, only for fusing), it sits
    on the pad. 

    And, by the way, the air intake for my vent sits on the bench too,
    right *behind* my soldering area. I made it out of galvenized
    ducting, dryer vent hose, and a squirrel-cage blower from American
    Science & Surplus (Grainger has them). Works great, cost almost
    nothing! 

Noel
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