Roughly what temperature would a Tilley X246 series hood reach when a lamp is burning? I see the discount store Aldi has some stove spray paint at a £5 for 400ml in their Thursday specials this week. Rated at about 650 degrees centigrade. Much cheaper than the XHT I usually use but would it be up to the job?
I searched "brass red hot temperature" and "brass annealing temperature" and got temperature from 450°C to 680°C depending on the grade of brass. Generator gets a bit red so it's temperature is in somewhere on that range. I assume that hood will not get as how as generator so it's temperature must be at least 100°C-200°C lower than generator's temperature.
Thanks, sounds promising. It is advertised https://www.aldi.co.uk/en/specialbuys/thur-3-sept/product-detail/ps/p/stove-paint-spray/ as being black silk gloss. Up to know I have only found high temperature paint in matt finish.
Sorry... I forgot to include the link to the data that I has referring. Here on page 2: http://www.nancylthamilton.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Annealing-Temperatures-of-Common-Jewelry-Metals-Annealing-Temperatures-for-Metals.pdf
Get yourself one of these at the same time. You'd get a definite answer of how hot then. https://www.aldi.co.uk/en/specialbuys/thur-3-sept/product-detail/ps/p/infrared-thermometer/
That Aldi IR thermometer has one weak point: "Measuring range from -50°C to +380°C" Upper limit should be somewhere close to melting point of brass.
Haha, I probably should have looked at the temp range. I did try Ray, but they only had the thermometers tonight, there wasn't a can of stove paint in sight. Maybe next week, our local is a bit slow.
Well I got 2 cans of the paint and bought a thermomoter anyway. So far I have found out my cat is registering about 33 degrees - Must be thick fur.
Bought a couple of cans and the thermometer myself, trouble was, the electric log splitter caught my eye on way to the tills, that bloody spray paint cost me £230 in the end Cheers
Interesting post. I may scoot down to my local Aldi for a can as it might be good for touching a Tilley hood or even recoating a Bialaddin hood perhaps? whilst trawling the internet I did find this stuff: http://www.vhtpaint.com/products/caliperpaint/ which is a high temperature CLEAR gloss paint. In theory then, you could paint a part like a Bialaddin lamp hood in its original colour, e.g. Dark Green and spray this stuff over the top to protect the paint? Its about £7.00 a can on fleabay. anyoner tried it?
Not quite. It's a "coating system" so you need cleaner, primer, colour coat and clear gloss lacquer. Oh, and correct preparation which, I imagine, will require removing every trace of rust and vitreous enamel i.e. down to bare metal, so a lot of work involved. It also appears to be from the US so there may be hassle and cost involved in getting it over here. Still, it's good to 482 degrees centigrade so it may be worth a try...
My local Aldi is too small to have the electric log splitter, but they did have the manual version. It was a very heavy cone of metal that you have to hit with a 10 pound sledge hammer to split the log. Not as good as the electric log splitter but very cheap.
I've used a splitting Maul to date ( a bloody great wedge on the end of a pick handle ) but it does give my back some jip, so £169 seems cheap to me push a button to energise the motor and pull a lever to energise the ram, voila 8) 8) 8)
The bloke next door has made a couple of hydraulic log splitters on his front drive. He's 'handy' like you, Ray...
Hi David Thanks (just ordered you some St/St perforated sheet, let's see if we can finish that hood aye )
G,,day , the highest temperature i can record on a 246 , is 320 C on the top of the vent my infrared thermomotere is not laborotary quality , but not cheep crap . i hope this may help kerry
Out of interest I have tried the "Aldi" stove paint as per the instructions -forget any hint of gloss cos its matt. So I've used it to spray a rather rusty tilley cage instead.
...except you don't need heat-resistant paint on a Tilley cage, Bill - ordinary (gloss) car enamel from Halfords or Plastikote from the likes of B&Q is sufficient. Light the lantern and you're just stoving it on a bit...
