2015 Indiana Woodgas Meetup | Argos, IN | May 29-31

Hello Ron .

Thanks much for the wood !

There are a lot of miles in your wood . An 18 inch deep hopper got me 107 miles on the flat Indiana roads and this includes towing a small trailer with load . :wink:

Hey Gary .

I bet the next time she waves at a Alabama state trooper she will have the set belt over the arm vs under it .
If I had a TC mounted somewhere about the passenger area I sure it would have raised a few clicks :grimacing:

The trailer is about 14" from the ground and the gate/ramp is 4 feet long. Not sure how to prop it up to your bed.

Jeff

I moved 4 posts to an existing topic: Josephs Build in Michigan

hope to see everyone at Argos, but I wonā€™t for sure if comming will be possible till May 28. Plant where work has given notice to shut down and lay off employees.Last year event was so great that I donā€™t want to think about not comming. Between Murphy and medical this last year I will be driving on dino juice. Plan to set up tent at event .
Dan

Iā€™m contemplating putting my chunker and wood gas lawn tractor on a trailer and dragging them to Argos. Problem is I wonā€™t have room for my gasifier. Iā€™ll see what I get done this week.

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Billā€¦sure was hoping you would have the gasifier ready to start up and we could break it in at Argoā€™s kinda like we did your new unit last year. Still looking forward to seeing you and your new chunker anyway. Have a safe trip.

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dont worry we can break in mine, it needs a lot of breakinā€™. Although I do wanna see Bills!

So I have this large amount of copper and brass (separate and clean no other metals or coatings) that I would like to get rid of for cheap (a dollar or so under spot price per pound) I can bring it to Argos with me if anyone is interested. It is stuff that I have been saving over the years from boiler rebuild jobs that we did. I would take it to the scrap yard myself except you pretty much need a scrapping license to scrap that amount of copper here in Michigan. And on top of that the information that they hijack from you is just insane. I would rather see someone else get there moneyā€™s worth from it. Let me know and I will throw it on the truck on my way down. There is at least a few hundred pounds of copper and brass. Thanks! A lot of the 2 inch brass valves are still in working condition, just used. Code requires you to change them to pass annual inspection on high pressure vessels. They are the big solid brass ones.

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Tough decision Bill. I want to see it all, especially the chunker.

2" brass gate valves might be a very popular item. Bring the truck for sure so we can get it sorted out for you.

Josephā€¦I will buy what ever you have.

Sounds good Gary, ill bring it

Argos shirts are hereā€¦

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Chris will you have them for sale at Argoā€™s?

We did preorders only this year.

If youā€™ve got one on order, you can pick it up there. Otherwise thereā€™ll be the DOW shirts, hats, gasifier girls, and some 2014s left.

If you missed the preorder cutoff, email me - I may have an extra in your size.

I need 100% cotton and a POCKET ā€¦ Maybe next year ā€¦ A T shirt without a pocket is like putting your boots on the wrong feet ā€¦ LUV, Mikey Iā€™ll stop there HI HI

Hey Gary, I bought 2, you can have one of mine.

weather channel says its going to be hot and stormy in Argos next weekend. However, the 10 day outlook on weather.com has been known to be wrongā€¦

Thanks Billā€¦if your good with it that would be fine. Will hook up with you next weekend. Question for Joseph Hā€¦what is the tungsten carbide you have? Is it old turning inserts , or tig welding tungsten sticks?

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the carbide is 9 inch diameter, and about 5MM thick blades used for slitting corrugated board on a corrugator. Each blade weighs almost 2 pounds, and they are the sharpest thing I have ever touched!

picture here:

Is the whole thing solid carbide or just the cutting edge?