Aaaah yes, the "sweet" smell of salammoniac.

I am glad to hear that you still have your box. I have no idea what
happened to mine.

My boss has one of those irons collecting dust in his office.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stadem, Richard D.
> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 9:11
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [TN] Hashing-Out Hatching
> 
> LOL! Once you have mastered soldering galvanized stainless steel sheet
> metal with exothermal iron sticks and 50/50 solder and rosin flux,
> everything else is easy!
> I made that tool box in 7th grade in 1966, gave it to my dad on
Father's
> Day. He was so impressed with it, he used it for 30 years and actually
> deeded it to back to me in his will.
> I still have it and I still use it. It was an open box with an
overhead
> gantry-style handle and fits neatly inside of another tool box. None
of
> the seams have broken yet.
> 
> Sadly, none of this is possible today. The schools would be horrified
if
> a gas-fired urn were being used. Just think of the liability. And to
> think of exposing the students to a solder made of 50% of that
dangerous
> lead! And we quenched the molten solder with rags soaked in dihydrogen
> monoxide! My God, what were we thinking?

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