Thread: Flat belting

Originally Posted by Steamwhisperer

At the moment we use resin. We have a large container of the stuff and just crush it up and sprinkle it on.

Phil

Rosin's getting hard to come by these days, the only source I know of locally is the local saddlery where it's sold to cowboys for adding grip to their lasso ropes and gloves. Apparently it's just pine tree sap with the turpentine distilled off it. All this talk of flat belts makes me want to get my old drill press up and running soon.

Thanks for the timely reminder about boat trailer bearings we have had two sets collapse in the last year

Originally Posted by Graziano

Rosin's getting hard to come by these days, the only source I know of locally is the local saddlery where it's sold to cowboys for adding grip to their lasso ropes and gloves.

Do gymnasts still use it? Might try a sports store.

I'll find out where we get the resin.

Phil

Hi all,
this is where we buy our flat belting resin.

Phil
Raw Materials

Originally Posted by Steamwhisperer

Hi all,
this is where we buy our flat belting resin.

Phil
Raw Materials

Thanks for the info, last time I bought 500 grams from the saddlery, it was $20 or so and you ran the risk of getting the old black coloured dregs which is useless for soldering flux...and pretty much everything else.

Phil, do you know which rein you buy, and how it is mixed and to what?
Thanks
Greg

Soldering flux?? You have to tell me how Graziano.

Phil

Originally Posted by Greg Q

Phil, do you know which rein you buy, and how it is mixed and to what?
Thanks
Greg

Hi Greg,
We buy it raw. We don't mix it just crush it to a powder and sprinkle it on the belt.

Phil

Originally Posted by Steamwhisperer

Soldering flux?? You have to tell me how Graziano.

Phil

Hi Phil, rosin is the core up the middle of rosin cored solder, I keep a tiny jam jar handy next to the soldering iron to dip the hot tip into: Rosin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I also dissolve it in some metho to paint on copper sheet when soldering it, or on bare copper circuit boards when assembling the components onto it.
The other use I have for it is for glass polishing pitch when bringing a rough ground glass lens to the final polish with cerium oxide or rouge.

Originally Posted by Bryan

Do gymnasts still use it? Might try a sports store.

I've heard music shops have it for violin player's bows at some silly price, I think the gymnasts use talcum though I may be wrong on that.

Originally Posted by Graziano

Hi Phil, rosin is the core up the middle of rosin cored solder, I keep a tiny jam jar handy next to the soldering iron to dip the hot tip into: Rosin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I also dissolve it in some metho to paint on copper sheet when soldering it, or on bare copper circuit boards when assembling the components onto it.
The other use I have for it is for glass polishing pitch when bringing a rough ground glass lens to the final polish with cerium oxide or rouge.

It's a good day. I just learnt something. Only down side is I had to make a heap of special keys that required soldering and nearly choked to death using Bakers soldering flux while beside me in a barrel sat nearly 100 years supply of resin.
Fantastic Graz, I will be giving that a go.

Phil

Originally Posted by Steamwhisperer

It's a good day. I just learnt something. Only down side is I had to make a heap of special keys that required soldering and nearly choked to death using Bakers soldering flux while beside me in a barrel sat nearly 100 years supply of resin.
Fantastic Graz, I will be giving that a go.

Phil

It's good to be useful now and then , The old baker's has a nasty fume being zinc and hydrochloric acid based. Rosin is also technically a solid acid of some kind and years of breathing the fumes will cause breathing problems too.......just ask me how I know. Nowadays I use one of those saline nasal sprays to flush it all out after a day of soldering, you'll sleep much better at night.

Rosin burns easily so an iron is preferable to a torch flame for heating the stuff: I have seen up to a 500W handmade electric soldering iron used by a corrugated water tank maker to solder up the seams in pre silastic days -1970's as a kid but that was with baker's flux too.It would be ideal for big soldering jobs with rosin. A big electric iron's another project on my list to do.

Originally Posted by Stustoys

A flat belt on a shaper, you wouldnt know where to look