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Posted by Jeff Wisnia on October 28, 2006, 12:30 pm
Al Bundy wrote:
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>>I'm looking to buy a small piece of brass screen. Like the screen in
>>a kitchen faucet aerator except a little bigger. Say 1 inch by 1 inch
>>or 1 x 1.5. Although I would gladly buy a piece twice as big, to have
>>for a spare, or even bigger. Where do you think I coudl find this for
>>sale?**
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>>**They don't have it at Pep Boys, NAPA auto parts, Home Depot, R.E.
>>Michel and according to the internet, Lowes. Nor did the plumbing
>>supply house I called have it, and he volunteered that he couldn't
>>think of a place to recommend. I'd have called more places but it was
>>5PM on Friday.
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>>I need this to make a replacement for the screen that is meant to keep
>>rust pieces from entering the petcock on my '69 Honda CB450
>>motorcycle. I think it would be easy enough to sew, with copper wire,
>>the screen into a tube closed on one end, and then glue that to the
>>reserve intake hole.
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>>So this is meant to be immersed in gasoline almost all the time,
>>except when I'm down to the last half gallon in the tank, when it will
>>be exposed to the air.
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>>Is brass screen the only thing that would work?
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>>If I can't find brass, what about steel screen?? I think I found a
>>screen, maybe with holes a little bit too big, but pretty good, that
>>was meant to be inserted in a sink to keep crud from going down the
>>drain. It was 3 or 4 dollars and I could take it apart.
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>>What about aluminum screen?? Again, the holes are a little too big,
>>but it would be verrry easy to get. Will it dissolve in gasoline
>>after a couple years? I can't think of any part of any other fuel
>>system that is made out of aluminum.
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>>I looked under "metals" in YP.yahoo.com and found a bunch of companies
>>with good names, but no easy way to tell who had brass and who had
>>screening, and if anyone had brass screen.
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>>What about fireplace screens? Is the screen part made out of brass,
>>or only the fame, and if it is, are there any with small holes?
>>(There is a real big fireplace store here that probably has parts of
>>old screens around.)
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>>Remove NOPSAM to email me..
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> Tried a Head shop? And I don't mean cylinder head. I mean brass screens
> for brass smoking pipes. Well they had 'em 35 years ago anyway...
They probably still do, because I heard the maintenance guy in our
building complaining that the aerators on faucets throughout the place
were periodically stolen so that the screens in them could be used in
homemade bongs.
Jeff
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Jeffry Wisnia
(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)
The speed of light is 1.98*10^14 fathoms per fortnight.
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