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Sourcing used truck brake drums?
Off the wall question, I know, but any recommendations for "sourcing" used brake drums from trucks. Neighbors have two they are using for flower planters / corner markers and I though "Cool, but they probably would work well for braziers. After all, they're a cast iron, which will handle heat relatively well, you can make a small fire in them and they'll radiate quite nicely. I mean, what's the difference between them and a "son of Hibachi". So, where's a good place to "source" a set? -- pyotr filipivich. Discussing the decline in the US's tech edge, James Niccol once wrote "It used to be that the USA was pretty good at producing stuff teenaged boys could lose a finger or two playing with." |
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Sourcing used truck brake drums?
On Friday, November 27, 2020 at 3:54:54 PM UTC-5, pyotr filipivich wrote:
Off the wall question, I know, but any recommendations for "sourcing" used brake drums from trucks. Neighbors have two they are using for flower planters / corner markers and I though "Cool, but they probably would work well for braziers. After all, they're a cast iron, which will handle heat relatively well, you can make a small fire in them and they'll radiate quite nicely. I mean, what's the difference between them and a "son of Hibachi". So, where's a good place to "source" a set? -- pyotr filipivich. Discussing the decline in the US's tech edge, James Niccol once wrote "It used to be that the USA was pretty good at producing stuff teenaged boys could lose a finger or two playing with." The local scrap yard has lots of brake drums and disk brakes. $.25 a lb.You can probably do better at a place that does brake jobs. I have a grinder mounted on a truck drum and some 4 inch pipe. Dan |
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Sourcing used truck brake drums?
pyotr filipivich wrote:
Off the wall question, I know, but any recommendations for "sourcing" used brake drums from trucks. Neighbors have two they are using for flower planters / corner markers and I though "Cool, but they probably would work well for braziers. After all, they're a cast iron, which will handle heat relatively well, you can make a small fire in them and they'll radiate quite nicely. I mean, what's the difference between them and a "son of Hibachi". So, where's a good place to "source" a set? Scrap yards, truck shops, truck leasing service centers. I picked the ones I have up from a Penske shop years ago. -- Steve W. |
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Sourcing used truck brake drums?
On Fri, 27 Nov 2020 12:56:22 -0800, pyotr filipivich
wrote: Off the wall question, I know, but any recommendations for "sourcing" used brake drums from trucks. Neighbors have two they are using for flower planters / corner markers and I though "Cool, but they probably would work well for braziers. After all, they're a cast iron, which will handle heat relatively well, you can make a small fire in them and they'll radiate quite nicely. I mean, what's the difference between them and a "son of Hibachi". So, where's a good place to "source" a set? Your local heavy truck repair center -after they get to the scrap yard it's generally hard to get them back out - at least around here. |
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