easy way to make manypicks in a short time

[SlingsVaqueros]

I have a sneaking suspicion that he may be exaggerating a little bit. My background in detective work (mostly watching CSI...) has kept me in close contact with legal resources that I just made up. This is from the 1979 edition of Exaggerated Expletives and their Function in Modern Society.

"Those who are incapable or unwilling to use at least rudimentary grammar, punctuation, and spelling, or to make an effort in that direction, have nothing important to say and should; therefore, be beaten about the face, head, and neck until such behavior ceases."

I rest my case.

[unjust]

SO.... benefit of the doubt here....

if you take an AL powder/laser 3d prototyper, and print out both sides of a pick with it (which will save you time in not laying down full thickness) drill a hole through them to index them, and then cast them in a high temp ceramic, you could cast titanium using ~lost alluminium instead of lost wax/wood/foam.

what i'm -really- trying to figure out is how you melt titanium in a cast iron skillet.

clearly there are a few steps i'm missing, although i *suppose* you could use a magnetic suspension and a laser to melt titanium directly into the mould in sitting in the pan to catch spatter, since the cast iron will pull heat off the titanium and al spatter so fast.....

now... how many mW laser you suppose one needs to melt a few cc of titanium?

[CompFX]

ROFLMAO - I have not laughed this much in weeks. Thank you OP and thank all the replies. This just turned my other-wize sh!tty day into something better.

Thank you all. I will definitely book mark this one for future laughs!!

"I think you droped some of these..."

~ This is just to much!!

Again, thanks.