Why doesn't someone just make some latex rust and welds?? I wonder if the
look could be duplicated using solder and some colouring??? Any pictures you
can post. I'd like to add this to a friends car for April 1st :-)




"Dixon" wrote in message
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If you are tired of paying top dollar at machine auctions here's an idea.
You simply take a piece of steel, high carbon alloy works best, and with a
stick welder, lay several beads of many varying lengths on it. The high
carb. will often crack lengthwise down the weld. Then bring the block to a
wire edm shop and have them shave the welds off flush with the block. What
you now have are ugly cracked welds of differant lengths with perfectly
flat backs. Arrive early at the auction and simply wipe off areas on the
ways of the machines you want to bid on, and with a drop of super glue
stick the welds on. For some reason nobody ever tries to pick the weld
off, and its just amazes me how little interest there is in a lathe, mill,
cmm, any cnc, with cracked weld all the way across the ways. This is how
we buy all our equiptment.

We hope you learned from us;
Purchasing Dept.
Halliburton

P.S. We have a lot of other ideas we will be sharing with you in the
future such as spray-on rust in aerosol cans that wipes of easily with
solvents. This seems to work on precision items such as micrometers, gage
blocks, pin gages etc.