"CAMCOMPCO" wrote in message
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The microwave is actually a GE Advantium (damn thing cost like 650
bucks) I use for heat treating metal and preheating aluminum (etc)
prior to tig welding..we had a house fire Halloween morning (talk about
BOO!!) salvaged the cabinets and oven for the shop..proverbial silver
lining I guess :-)

I undoubtedly am showing a vast well of ignorance, but I didn't think
putting metal in a microwave was a "good thing". I thought this would
rearrange the electrons in the earth's magna-gravitational field or some
such thing. How do you use it for preheating and heat treating? How do you
monitor temperature? Microwaves are cheap these days - I want to do this.

Peter