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RE: Sup... Gangsta? Do. We. Have. A. Problem?
She makes her money by self voting, and becoming so nasty people respond, so she can self vote some more. I just flag her. Sad misuse of steemit, no friends at all!
That crap does get hot, we used it on the pipeline to attach copper wire, to measure cathodic protection on the line. We had to contain the charge with graphite to keep it from flashing out, but if everything was perfect, it worked and the copper bonded.
But our drone commander must be smarter than the people that make it for commercial use, ROFLOL! Not bad for a cockroach....
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You mean you were trying to melt the copper to steel? You couldn't just solder it or something?
6" high pressure gasoline pipeline. They copper let us measure the electric (cathode) potential on the pipe to avoid rusting.
:)>And the copper had to be infused into the pipe like a weld, it couldn't be wrapped around it?
Corrosion would destroy the connection due to electrolytic action. Must be bonded....
:)>Ok but bonded how? that's what I've been asking. I guess I need to ask our new friend with the drone army, I bet he can explain it since we're so dumb!
The metals are thermally melted together.
Yes, his drone army really concerns me, since he was too smart to look at my profile and he thinks I am in Texas, LOL!
:)>lol! What an insult! A Texan!
So the metals are thermally melted together. can't the copper just be soldered to the pipe or is it too hard to get the pipe metal hot enough to melt? I think you're trying to make this as difficult to understand as possible. It's like a dang lawyer explaining something!
Solder is very difficult on old pipe, poor surface. Thermite burns through the garbage to the clean metal, without too much depth annealing (softening) of the pipe. The two metals are forever bonded, and the pipe is NOT softened.
Now you know more about Thermite than your troll will ever know!
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