no stupid questions[ right]

[dulknife]

let me run this by ya-ll. i have heard a lot of differant opinions on drying rod. sence water boils at something like 40 below 0 in a vaccuum of 29 ins. why couldn't i dry them in a pressure vessal. neg pressure

[chip hayden]

gee, i guess you could. if you can pull that much vacuum though don't collapse your pressure vessel![hahaha]

[dulknife]

i thought about an odl pressure cooker. my ac vaccuum will pull the 29 in

[Franz]

Well Dullknife, I've had that thought too. I even have the vacuum pumps, and could probably give it a try using an old pressure cooker I bought to use for steaming oak to bend the oak.
I have pulled a vacuum on the stainless beer and wine barrels we convert to gasoline tansk, and even once put half a cup of water in one just to test the theory, and it works.
How long you'd need to maintain the vacuum is an unknown, but it should work a lot like freeze drying. That's the method they are now using to salvage books and papers that have been flooded, and it works well.
You wouldn't even need to pull 29" to boil the water off if you set the vessel in the sun.

One thing I can tell you doesn't work well for drying rods, baking them in the kitchen oven definitely ain't a good idea. Those **** oven racks should be able to hold 100# of rod, but they can't, and wives get real unreasonable about bent oven racks.

[chip hayden]

yeah, i agree with Franz. besides the turkey ends up tasting like 7018. really, though there are so many rods on the market that aren't low hydrogen and produce a weld as nice looking and as strong. so unless you have a spec that requires low hydrogen why bother?

[vwguy3]

Hey Franz sounds like your wife needs some new and improved racks for the oven maybe made out of punched stainless sheet and square tube. Then you can patent and sell to whirlpool.
Mike

[Franz]

She already got me for a new, IMPROVED stove, with a self cleaning oven and a window in the door that nobody can see thru cause it's built for midgets and dogs to look thru. Flarnisdartin stove cost me plenty, and I ain't allowed to use it for experiments.

[vwguy3]

Well you know dogs and midgets like pizza too!
Best laugh I've had all day.
Mike

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DULLKNIFE........... NO STUPID QUESTIONS........ BUT I'VE NEVER TRIED IT.......USEING A VACUUME...........ABOUT THE OVEN WHAT ARE WE DRYING 6 50LB BOXES AT A TIME...........I USE A COOKIE SHEET AND A HAND FULL SAY 5-15 RODS AT A TIME..... MY TURKEYS OR PIES NEVER TASTED LIKE 7018............. ..... BE SAFE NOW GUYS........................ROCK.............
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[Franz]

Pies, I remember pies, back before my wiff extorted me for the new EXPENSIVE stove she used to bake pies, but I don't think the new stove knows how to make pies. It only makes cookies at BahHumbugh time.
I even got her the marble sheet she hinted would be real nice to go with her marble rolling pin, and mentioned it would come in handy for rolling out pie crust, that's when she showed me the rolling pin, real close up.

I have some OLD rod collecting moisture in the cellar, in fact, it's stuck together, so I might just run the experiment. The question I have, how do I measure the moisture content after vacuuming? I know vacuuming will remove water cause we vacuum refridgeration tube systems for exactly that reason.