• Jon_Servo@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Aircraft use tungsten ballast plates. I know it requires hardware, but would that have been viable?

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      16 days ago

      Possible but the expense ruined my plans in the end… I did consider collecting broken tungsten end mills and inserts from machine shops and throwing them in molten lead, like croutons in a lead soup.

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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        16 days ago

        If I understand it right, you’d get mostly cobalt that way. Carbide tooling isn’t solid tungsten or silicon carbide but carbide powder embedded in cobalt.