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Re: tall tube heat blue hands for 3646
Posted: January 24th, 2020, 2:28 pm
by thelonedoc
An H3 plus tall tubes should be enough for a thicker sandwich dial.
Re: tall tube heat blue hands for 3646
Posted: January 24th, 2020, 2:40 pm
by NortON
thelonedoc wrote: ↑January 24th, 2020, 2:28 pm
An H3 plus tall tubes should be enough for a thicker sandwich dial.
That is, so as not to soldered the hands and use regular hands
Re: tall tube heat blue hands for 3646
Posted: January 24th, 2020, 2:41 pm
by NortON
Belkin12 wrote: ↑January 24th, 2020, 2:13 pm
binbin wrote: ↑January 24th, 2020, 1:25 pm
If you solder the tubes on, how do you blue the hands? Blue the hands first , then solder?
Yes. Blue color will be affected at 290-300°. Soldering with soft solder can be done at 180-190°. It's not so scaring experience if you use a soldering-iron with temp adjusting.
Great work!
Re: tall tube heat blue hands for 3646
Posted: January 24th, 2020, 4:49 pm
by bmsm
Belkin12 wrote:binbin wrote: ↑January 24th, 2020, 1:25 pm
If you solder the tubes on, how do you blue the hands? Blue the hands first , then solder?
Yes. Blue color will be affected at 290-300°. Soldering with soft solder can be done at 180-190°. It's not so scaring experience if you use a soldering-iron with temp adjusting.
Great job!!
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Re: tall tube heat blue hands for 3646
Posted: January 24th, 2020, 8:48 pm
by Sevanata
binbin wrote:That is crazy long. That is measured from the bottom of the hand?
I think if the hands were made from the proper material that will blue, you will run into other problems.
The hand holes will need to be (re-) broached after heat bluing due to the most likely distortion of the tubes.
Wouldn't it be easier to modify the CP and HW?
I think not only appropriate but look much better to extend the cp/hw for few more $ more.
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Re: tall tube heat blue hands for 3646
Posted: January 25th, 2020, 12:07 am
by thelonedoc
If you use tall tubes from the nightwatch hands that have faux cannon pinion it will look great. Also a lot cheaper than a custom set of hw and cp.
