Just put a pressed metal glue pot on the For sale section (and it's gone already!) but also asked if anyone knew of a source for the outer pot to fit another one which it would be good to put into service. Just thought it might be worth repeating the request here; the inner pot is 2.75" diameter and the same tall; any offers of a suitable pot/ideas how to make one etc. would be welcomed.
Outer pot for CI glue pot
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xy mosian
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My own, small pot, is a tin that once contained Ham suspended in a one time Fray Bentos pudding tin by a re-bent coathanger. On similar lines perhaps an empty paint tin could be used. Of course you would need to find a metal one and then clean it well. Some waxes/polishes come in metal containers.
Sorry I missed out on your small pot.
HTH xy.
Sorry I missed out on your small pot.
HTH xy.
Thanks, Chris; pm sent.
Hi Dick, here's a link to some pics, I hope they are self-explanitory otherwise just message me.
http://photobucket.com/gluepot
Is this for you to use or are you planning to sell?
Chris
http://photobucket.com/gluepot
Is this for you to use or are you planning to sell?
Chris
Thanks for the details, Chris, but you have the complete pot - it's just the outer that's needed, having found an old CI inner lying around. It would be a shame to separate what looks like the really nice unit that you have.
Reason for looking to use the "found" pot is that the existing smaller pot for use on restoration jobs is JUST too small to sit stably on the camping gas stove used to heat it. So a slightly larger unit would be safer. It seems a waste to be heating up the large amount of glue needed to cover the base of the ancient (and definitely not PAT tested!) electric one when only a small amount is needed. Probably doesn't do the glue any favours, either.
Will keep hunting, or possibly try a bit of metal spinning one day, but thanks again. If a suitable outer turns up, the current smaller pot may be for sale; then again, having three possible sizes of pot could be useful.
A "collector"?? Moi??
Reason for looking to use the "found" pot is that the existing smaller pot for use on restoration jobs is JUST too small to sit stably on the camping gas stove used to heat it. So a slightly larger unit would be safer. It seems a waste to be heating up the large amount of glue needed to cover the base of the ancient (and definitely not PAT tested!) electric one when only a small amount is needed. Probably doesn't do the glue any favours, either.
Will keep hunting, or possibly try a bit of metal spinning one day, but thanks again. If a suitable outer turns up, the current smaller pot may be for sale; then again, having three possible sizes of pot could be useful.
A "collector"?? Moi??
xy mosian
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I had exactly the same size versus balance issue using my own small pot, see above, on the gas stove. A flat piece of 1mm. steel plate underneath it cured the problem.
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xy mosian":1snnv4iw said:
Yes, that's definitely more stable, but 2mm plate seems to slow down the heating process inordinately. Or is that just me being impatient?
Easily the best means of heating is the wood stove, but that's in the living room at the other end of the house and the domestic authorities are phillistines who are not keen on the smell of hot glue!
Thinking back to school woodwork lessons in the pre-H&S days, the glue pot used to sit directly on the open coal fire in the classroom. Wonder how we all survived???
xy mosian
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I know what you mean about impatience. Oh! and of course the domestic authorities. "Wonder how we all survived???" strange that, quite a lot of us seemed to have done.
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