Making Soft Copper Washers

[editor@glue-it.com]

A simple article to take people through my way of making soft copper washers:

Drill some holes in copper sheet, best to then ream the holes


Cut them into pieces


Fit them onto a mandrel in the lathe and clamp them between two washers


Turn them to size


Then you just need to deburr them and finally anneal them. Annealing copper is easy, heat it up to dull red and dump them in water


I then have a soft copper washer that will form a great seal on my steam boiler