I have a project that requires joining several pieces of steel wire rope together. I will be using 1/8th inch diameter steel wire rope. It will be lining both the neck as well as the face for a heavy clear plastic rain bonnet. As you may know, the face piece for a rain bonnet joins the neck at about...

Folks: I wish to share with you a wonderful accomplishment I had this weekend! I have finally achieved success at tig brazing brass to stainless steel! After much frustration and breathing God only knows what kind of fumes that evoke from heating brass (and yes, they do stink), I have finally got a ...

Folks: I have a complete home brew LED and HID lighting system for my bike that includes headlights, taillights, and decorative lighting so I can be seen and noticed. I have a pdf file on my website (www.clearplastic.com) that shows how I assembled the system as well as how I put together my line of...

That last post gives me fear of accidentally attempting to weld magnesium. How can I recognize magnesium before attempting to weld it and ending up with a magnesium flare on my welding bench. I fear this because my primary source of metal to do my art is the second hand bicycle shop and the thrift s...

Folks: Thank you for your comments; I just got back from a trip and am looking over them right now. I am no longer saying that 'I represent Burning Man' in public. Often people, upon seeing my creations, ask if I got them from the Playa. I explain to them that the creations are my own and that it is...

I did not think of that. Hmm. . . Thanks for the suggestion. That could explain it. Especially, when I work with stainless (stainless tableware from thrift stores), I don't have the problem, nor with mild steel purchased from metalsonline.com. Then a question could be, how can one (if possible) atte...

Tihaar: That's a good tip. Thanks. I don't think it's titanium, thoug for two reasons. First of all, the place that I get it from (Citybikes Annex in Portland, Oregon) are very knowlegable, and I would doubt that they would let a tike gear out of the parts room for fifty cents. Secondly, I notice so...

The side emitting optic fiber is plastic. It cannot be subjected to any heat at all. It also cannot be in the cold and bent back and forth often. I am having problems with the light pipes in my raincoat cracking if I am outside and it's below 30 degreens. I have had to replace a few. For under a veh...

Folks: Just to let you know, I did look into the tri color LED's, both the low power variety as well as the Luxeon high power tri color LED's. The issue that I have is that the side emitting optical fiber is too narrow in order to all three of the individual color emitters to properly 'face' the end...

The brightness is comprable wiht EL-Wire. However, it will be drawing slightly more current. In fact, with some of the colors, mainly the 'warm' colors of orange, red, and yellow, you will get brighter results. If I have a length of side emitting fiber that's three feet or less, I can illuminate it ...

I got sick and tired of the finickyness of EL-Wire technology and devised a way to use high power LED's and Fiber Optic cable to achieve the same effect as EL-Wire, but with far better colors and without the high voltage. Here is a PDF Document that I want to share with you on how I constructed my l...

Hello: I do tig welding to make steel jewelry and art out of discarded metal stuff such as stainless steel tableware from thrift stores, old tools, and bicycle stuff from a used bicycle shop that sells used parts. Everything's cool and great except for one frustrating problem. Normally, when I tig w...

Folks: Thanks for the heads up and warnings about dust, rental RV's, sharing them with strangers, and cleaning. So, I tossed that idea out the side window to let it tumble on the road and am looking at another one. I am operating at a bit of a handicap as I don't even own a car. I knew that Green To...

Next time you want to do it wrapped in christmas lights, be sure to used the LED christmas lights! They run cool and wont' burn you.

And you roll around in them. They do not use glass and cannot break!

I danced once while naked and wrapped in LED lights!

Cleara

Great stuff!

I appreciate it!

Cleaar

P.S. I recently bought the Miller Dynasty GTAW rig and am having a blast!

Folks:

Being new here; I need to ask where can I seek others to share costs of renting an RV to go to Burn 09 from Portland, Oregon?

Or, instead of that, trying to find someone with space in their RV who's going to '09 from Portland?

Thanks

Mark

I did not realize that there was a www link. I will stop using my URL in my posings.

Consider that an Oops on my part.

Also, thanks for the tip on the cpap.

With that, now there's a much better chance I'll go in 09.

Truly,

Mark

Folks: I forgot to mention, it's not the issue of powering the CPAP, it's a matter of keeping it dust free. I don't even own the CPAP. It's leased by my insurance company from a joint called Apria Health. If I damage it, it would be a $3,000 pop on my head, which is not very good. I had talked about...

This is not something that I actully did, but came close to doing. I was tig welding (Gas Tungsten Arc Welding) a sculpture for my bicycle (can be seen at www.allyn.com ), and a piece of it was overhanging my welding bench, right in front of me. Well, I was using too much current and a blob of molte...

Folks: I have just joined the eplaya and got a good welcome on the newcomer's site, but I have a question that I hope is appropriate for this forum. Although I am in the spirit of Burning Man, due to health reasons I will not ever be able to go in the forseeable future. Having severe sleep apnea and...

I have been posting my work on www.allyn.com ever since I got that domain back in 1995, before the internet exploded, then imploded in the .bust and exploded again. My hands on hobbies started with electronics. I ran my own TV repair shop when in the fifth grade in school back in Winchester, Massach...

The big three auto makers.

Should we bail them out?

Or allow the process of death and rebirth by burning run its course, just like the man?

luv

Cleara
(Mark Allyn)
Portland, Oregon

I love to use my three hobbies of sewing, welding, and electronics to create light art in for form of lighted clothing and sculpture. I would love to meet up with other light artists, especially in the Portland, Oregon area! You can check out my on line journal at www.allyn.com to see the kind of ar...

Greetings, folks! I am joining, having been introduced at Burnout in Portland, Oregon last weekend. I consider myself a light artist. Using my hobbies in sewing, welding, and electronics, I make lighted clothing and sculptures. For those of you who were at Burnout, the lighted bicycle wiht all of th...