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Making Soft Copper Washers
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
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Cut them into pieces
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Fit them onto a mandrel in the lathe and clamp them between two washers
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Turn them to size
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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
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I then have a soft copper washer that will form a great seal on my steam boiler
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