Anyone know if any brick and mortar stores might carry silica rope? Or where I might get something that is a suitable replacement from a local store. I'm gonna order a chunk online but my nichrome showed up today and I wanna play around 
brick and mortar source for silica rope?
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I've read that oven gaskets are viable and sometimes actually made of silica rope. I just wanna be careful not to put something 'dangerous' in the attie.
Yes, those are often silica rope. Might be worth looking around for some of that if you want something locally available
Silica or fiberglass, there is a thin discrepancy in the definition between the two. Stove gasket is quite easy to find in hardware stores, just make sure you get the white variety and try to research a bit from the manufacturer first. Baking it in the oven and washing/ boiling gets rid of manufacturing residues quite well.
Somebody could answer how to make an atty
without sstell mesh?? i cannot find this thing.
without sstell mesh?? i cannot find this thing.
Be careful with some of the oven and stove gaskets...I was looking at some at Home Depot and they were graphite impregnated...had an obvious grey color....you dont want that in your atty.
Indeed, I saw black ones and they listed materials as fiberglass and color/paint~very loosely defined.
Now you tell me. Lol. There was a thread from 09 where they talked about using the graphite (Grapho) stove rope. I tried it and that stuff is nasty. Wonder i'm still alive.
Unrelated question, but could you use a reusable cone shaped coffee filter for ss mesh? Description on home depot filter says it's heat treated ss mesh....
I don't think so, it is likely too course. Perhaps in the #200 range. A giveaway is that you can see the mesh pattern, with #325 and #400 it looks like silk. Also these filters are meant to last a long time and you wouldn't have the structural integrity with finer mesh that the design of these filters needs.
I've ordered some 316 alloy 400mesh stainless steel, some medium and fine ss wool and have a big chunk of silica rope and fluval. As soon as all this stuff shows up I'm gonna be having an atty/carto buildathon for my new design thanks for the info in here so far!
thanks for the info in here so far!
I quote: "Although fiberglass was thought to be a "safe" substitute for asbestos, researchers later found that it too was associated with the risk of lung cancer and lung disease. Fiberglass is one of a group of products known as man-made mineral fibers or man-made vitreous fibers. Hamsters forced to breathe fine-diameter fiberglass in a Swiss laboratory developed fibrotic lung conditions, tiny tumor-like growths, abnormal mesothelial cells and damaged cell nuclei only six months into a two-year study. One test animal exposed to fiberglass developed mesothelioma.
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