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Re: Tempering metal

To: "Donna and Terry Cost" <tcost@hot.rr.com>,
Subject: Re: Tempering metal
From: "Mike Faggart" <mikef@carolina.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 18:04:27 -0400
If you need any help emptying any containers.......let me know.  I will
volunteer to help further the research for roadsters


mike faggart

----- Original Message -----
From: "Donna and Terry Cost" <tcost@hot.rr.com>
To: "Datsun Roadsters" <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 5:26 PM
Subject: Tempering metal


> Actually, I have been working on an environmentally friendly method of
> tempering metal objects.  If you older folks can remember that far back,
> Coca-Cola came in a glass bottle, and the bottom of the bottle made a good
> magnifying glass to burn ants.  Since Coca-Cola does not usually come in a
> glass bottle any more I have researched liquid containers for the next
best
> thing, and have found that Shiner Bock beer bottles make the next best
> magnifying glasses.  I plan to mount about a thousand bottle bottoms in a
> large grid and shine the concentrated sunlight on metal objects, just like
> the new "Strategic Defense Initiative" Laser Cannons.  I have bought a
large
> stock tank from Tractor Supply and have been filling it with used motor
oil
> from my roadster.  What I plan to do is suspend a metal part above the
tank
> of oil, shine the concentrated sunlight from the Shiner Bock grid on it
> until it gets white hot, then quickly dunk the metal in the used oil.
Only
> clean solar energy will be used, oil will be recycled, and I have an
excuse
> to drink a thousand or so Shiner beers.  I don't see any downside to this
> plan.
>
> Leisure Suit Terry
>
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