Re: MtMan-List: Re: AMM-List: aluminum

["Barry Conner" <buck.conner@worldnet.att.net>]

I have welded aluminum with a torch since 1955, no big deal on 3/16 inch and
heavier pieces, used to weld many lawnmower decks for Toro and Lawn Boy
dealers, seems metal blades crack those decks when the blade hits the water
meter cap in the yard. Found the real problem was most of the time a teen
age kid was doing the mowing, and the quickier the mower quit, the quicker
they got to go play.

Anyway, "Utechic Corp." were the ones that came out with a rod with special
flux that made the job of welding aluminum a piece of cake. We kept it quite
for some time and got all the "special hard to do jobs". HA

As for Washington's Cook Set at Valley Forge, that one is made of tin of a
fine craftsman, got to handle it a few times when our next door neighbor was
involved at the museum there, Adrmiral Vernon L. Bigsby, retired, is the one
that took the pictures of the pieces of a copper canteen found at one of the
bunker sites (a mound of dirt) in Valley Forge Park, (I called him about the
canteen because of the usual inquires that we have all seen, "is it or isn't
correct" - Peter Gobel was going crazy as were several others in the
tin/copperware business, plus "were they available" - reason for calling),
this was just four or five years ago, the was question as to being correct
for the F&I boys by one of the National groups looking over that period
would not OK them.

Oh, some of the brothers were asking about locations of different rendezvous
sites, how close or accurate is the information in "Landmarks Of The Rocky
Mountain Fur Trade" by Pierce Olson!

Hope this helps on Washington's Cook Set and welding aluminum.

Buck

Aux Ailments de Pays!
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-----Original Message-----
From: John Kramer <kramer@kramerize.com>
To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com <hist_text@lists.xmission.com>
Cc: ammlist@lists.xmission.com <ammlist@lists.xmission.com>
Date: Sunday, November 08, 1998 4:38 PM
Subject: MtMan-List: Re: AMM-List: aluminum


Jon T.

The only attributed cookware of George Washington's, I am aware of, is
pictured
in "Collector's Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Revolution"
George C.
Neumann and Frank J. Kravic ISBN 0-8117-0394-0

Page 94 shows the cook kit with plates, platters and pots all in tin. The
confusion may result from the top of the Washington Monument being capped in
aluminum (the most expensive metal at the time it was built).

It is unlikely any early cookware was made of metal more valuable than gold.

I'm still digging for an exact date but, if memory serves to something noted
long ago in passing; the first aluminum was made somewhere in the late
1850's.

John...




At 06:33 AM 11/8/98 -0800, you wrote:

>
> Paul J. I also hope someone can come up some references for George
> Washington's cook ware Now days it takes electric power to make aluminum I
> am union pipe welder by trade and I worked with an old welder who could
weld
> aluminum with a torch. But me it took a Tig welder. But I can do magic
with
> a Tig torch. I am going to also send this to the Hist-list. Later Jon T
>
> ----------
> : From: Paul Jacobson <cougar95@lightspeed.net>
> : To: ammlist@lists.xmission.com
> : Subject: Re: AMM-List: aluminum
> : Date: Saturday, November 07, 1998 1:39 PM
> :
> : These are interesting questions...I hope someone knows the answer and
will
> : include it here. I can't add a thing of real value, except that my
mother,
> : bless her memory, got a set of aluminum cook ware for a wedding present
in
> : the late 20's/early 30's. Rumor was the aluminum would poison the cook,
> : but her South Dakota good sense thought that silly. I still have 'em,
and
> : the big pan makes damn good popcorn. It has since I was little watching
> : Wallace Berry on our first TV.
> :
> : Cougar Heart
> : Paul Jacobson #1597
> : ----------
> : > From: WIDD-Tim Austin <AustinT@silltcmd-smtp.army.mil>
> : > To: ammlist@mail.xmission.com
> : > Subject: AMM-List: aluminum
> : > Date: Friday, November 06, 1998 6:37 AM
> : >
> : > Mr Kramer just brought up a subject that I have been interested in
> : > because of its current availability. Aluminum. Several years ago I
read
> : > that a General George Washington, revolution war era, had a cook set
of
> : > aluminum. Seems I also read the a Mr. Stewart took a set of aluminum
> : > cook ware with him West of the Mississippi River when he went. Does
> : > anyone have the exact documentation on this subject, or did my memory
> : > totally fail me on this one?
> : >
> : > Thank you for your assistance.
> : >
> : > Tim Austin #1564
> : >
> : > --------------------
> : > Aux Ailments de Pays!
> :
> : --------------------
> : Aux Ailments de Pays!



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