RE: [ATM] Melting Pitch

[Royston_Jeremy@emc.com]

Hello Richard,
	These days the people are a bunch of wimps. No risk, no fun!
I melt it in a tin on the electric cooker using low heat, keep watching it
all the time.
You can also cover the tin with aluminium foil and put it in the oven,
temperature about 140 deg C. 
Remember that melting pitch and trimming the lap can lead to domestic stress

Best wishes, Jerry

-----Original Message-----
From: atm-bounces@atmlist.net [mailto:atm-bounces@atmlist.net] On Behalf Of
Richard
Sent: Dienstag, 14. Juni 2005 17:59
To: ATM List
Subject: [ATM] Melting Pitch

Hi ATMers,

It's been many a decade since I melted pitch. In this safety
conscious PC world, how do we melt it now?. The H&S (MSD) sheet
says not to let e naked flame anywhere near it, yet I'm sure
that's how I did it when I were a lad.

One piece of information that I cannot find is the actual
melting point of it. I'm using bitmumanous coal tar pitch called
Gugolz 63 and 74. Is the Gugolz number equal to the melting
point in degrees C by any chance?

It's frightening the stuff you forget as you get older :(

-- 
Best regards,
  Richard in the UK



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