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Reply #10 - Feb 20^th, 2009 at 12:34pm

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Brake drums are steel, and if cleaned thouroughly, there should be no residue.... If not, I am stuffed!!!!!

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Reply #11 - Feb 20^th, 2009 at 12:52pm

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G'day Rastas

Do you own some cookware made from brake drums? If so, I would be interested in havin a squiz.

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Reply #12 - Feb 20^th, 2009 at 6:51pm

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I used to.. We had our equivalent to a Pot Belly stove made of two brake drums.. It was complete with a door cut in the side and chimney flue spigot in the top. (It was the first thing I ever cut with a plasma cutter and the first serious bit of MIG welding I ever did....)

We made a deep bowl out of a medium sized brake drum for cooking stew...

I left it all at the house we built it for coz it was too dang heavy to move... (Wish I hadn't now, as it would have been ideal in the back yard instead of a brazier.)

If I was to build another one, I prolly would build one out of an old beer Gas cylinder (100kg one)

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Reply #13 - Feb 21^st, 2009 at 2:35pm

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Rastas000 wrote on Feb 20^th, 2009 at 12:34pm:

Brake drums are steel, and if cleaned thouroughly, there should be no residue.... If not, I am stuffed!!!!!

Brake drums are Cast Iron Rastas, steel would warp with the heat & stress of a braking system, even on cars. Smiley

Rastas000 wrote on Feb 20^th, 2009 at 6:51pm:

I used to.. We had our equivalent to a Pot Belly stove made of two brake drums.. It was complete with a door cut in the side and chimney flue spigot in the top. (It was the first thing I ever cut with a plasma cutter and the first serious bit of MIG welding I ever did....)

Like this one I made years ago???

George, I will let you elaborate on this one......Welding Cast Iron with a MIG?
Can be done but as weak as piss!

Sorry Rastas! Wink

Cheers, Mick.

the_pot_belly.jpg (80 KB | )

Live while your'e alive, you can sleep when your'e dead.

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Reply #14 - Feb 21^st, 2009 at 3:50pm

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BillyBushCook wrote on Feb 21^st, 2009 at 2:35pm:

rake drums are Cast Iron Rastas,

Absolutely.... Steel, cast iron.. Significant differences... but spoken as the same... Bad me..

Yup the thing looks the sameish...

I made the frame it sat on the supports for the heat shield at the rear.. As I said, the most significant MIG welding I had done to date..

Geez I hate it when a pedant out pedants me... Wink

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Reply #15 - Feb 25^th, 2009 at 10:34am

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Speaking of different metals, Ive often wondered whether anyone has ever cast a camp oven out of bronze.

I reckon it would make a bonza oven

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Reply #16 - Feb 25^th, 2009 at 12:22pm

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I don't know the down side of cooking in bronze but when I visited Billmans foundry last year to pick up some COs Max the owner gave Sundryed and meself a tour around the joint and a lot of the casting they were doing was in bronze.
They had a Holden there, in pieces, which they had used to cast a full size bronze replica of with Peter Brock standing on the roof. It was destined to end up at Bathurst, has anyone seen it ?

pd

When I die I hope my missus doesn't sell my camp ovens for what I told her I paid for them. pd

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Reply #17 - Feb 25^th, 2009 at 12:59pm

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poddy dodger wrote on Feb 25^th, 2009 at 12:22pm:

They had a Holden there, in pieces, which they had used to cast a full size bronze replica of with Peter Brock standing on the roof. It was destined to end up at Bathurst, has anyone seen it ?

PD

I was just talking to a bloke who used to work at the Peter Brock museum up here in Yeppoon. He says the replica is actually a Half (lenght wise) replica to go against a wall. It is at the Bathurst Museum at Bathurst.

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Reply #18 - Feb 25^th, 2009 at 1:18pm

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poddy dodger wrote on Feb 25^th, 2009 at 12:22pm:

I don't know the down side of cooking in bronze but when I visited Billmans foundry last year to pick up some COs Max the owner gave Sundryed and meself a tour around the joint and a lot of the casting they were doing was in bronze.

Thanks for the tip PD, I will give Billmans a hoy to see if they would be interested in knocking me up a 15" in bronze.

I was at an Elmore Field Day about five or six year ago and there was a bloke there selling solid cast iron Chimnea made from 120 year old cast iron water pipe which was apparently excavated from Bendigo’s water supply system during a refurbishment; anyway he also had one made of old bronze water pipe. It weighed a bloody ton but by jingos it was bloody impressive chimnea, with solid bronze walls over one inch thick and a beautiful coppery patina.

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Reply #19 - Feb 25^th, 2009 at 1:54pm

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Im wondering if maybe Bronze might be like stainless ....food tends to stick to it...and will it season ok. ....without looking into it ive got a feeling bronze might be a bit on the expensive side too......but as a one off personal oven.....yes it would be a a nice thing to own.

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