[ale] [OT] Tin foil hats [Was: Re: niche Linux distros article]

[Jim Kinney]

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> For the last 24-months there's been a shortage of tinfoil.  Oh.., wait
> a second, after the election they quit buying tinfoil and started
> buying bullets instead, so maybe you can still find tinfoil.


The price of lead foil has shot up almost as crazy as gold.  Maybe there's a
connection....

If you can actually _find_ real tin foil, get ready for sticker shock! I
have a set of solid coppr pots that one has a bad scratch in the tin linning
I want to fix. The solution is to do the flux, apply heat and melt in a bit
of tin foil into the scratch. I found a 1m square of tin foil was about $12.
The same amount of aluminum is about $.30. So I'm using a silver-bearing, no
lead tin solder (no cadmium or other funky metals either) 1% silver and 99%
tin that cost $4 for a small spool. Now to build a gonzo charcoal fire to
keep the pot hot while using the torch on the specific area...
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