pattico...how cute! and very functional. I am in the process of re-doing my sewing area, so I will definately add this to my list of things to make. Thanks!

So, try it. Put a CO detector in close proximity and see if it goes off when you test it. Ron

Well, ...what kind of soldering? There is the soft, low heat soldering which is done in copper piping, electronics, etc. or the high strengths silver soldering which is done with high heat. That pin your'e talking about looks like needs silver soldering to make it strong. Cleanliness is of importance, always clean so metal is showing and the use of flux, high heat oxy/acetylene torch is a must have, the solder melts when you see metal just slightly get red.

The question I have is about the accuracy of old surveys, and where the legality is. The most extreme example of this is the old description of a county boundary. This is describing a boundary creating a new county out of part of Clinton County: "Be it enacted by the People of the State of New York represented in Senate and Assembly, That all of that part of the County of Clinton lying south of a line beginning at the south west corner of the town of Peru, and running from thence easterly along the south line of said town until it intersects the great river Ausable, from thence along the north bank of the south branch of said river until it strikes Lake Champlain...". (The text here continues for quite awhile, but my point is made here). The point is that now, that county line runs at an azimuth of approximately 83 degrees (due east is 90 degrees). This Act was passed in 1799. I thought that the surveyors then didn't know about magnetic declination, and that these descriptions were based on magnetic north, not geographic north, as modern surveys are made, but the error is about 7 degrees, while the magnetic declination correction was about 11 degrees then (in 1983 it was 14 degrees 3 minutes). So, I have two general questions: 1. in such cases as this, were subsequent acts passed to correct the description? I assume that the original description is recognized as being in error. 2. Or, are the monuments placed in 1799 now the defining description and a new survey would (and probably was) made to give the precise description. I attach below the map of the new county: I apologize for hijacking this thread, but I could not figure out how to create a new one for this subject. Now, I copy here a portion of the deed for some property I purchased in 2013: "ALL THAT CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND being located in the Town of Elizabethtown, County of Essex, State of New York, being part of the property described.... BEGINNING at a found 3/4" iron rod in concrete 0.1' below grade located at the northwest corner of the herein described parcel and the southwest corner of (someone else's property), said iron rod being located on the easterly assumed road bounds of .... road, as shown on Essex County File Map No. ---, said iron rod being also located S20*59'01" as referenced to New York State Grid North by 1983 Datum by GPS observations a distance of 250.34 feet along said rod bound from a capped iron road locate at the southwest corner of (someone else's property) and running: 1....." Following here is the description of the entire plot, ending with "7. N20*01'25" E 303.43 feet to the point of the beginning containing 15.0 acres, more or less, with the above described bounds." The two points I make here is the reference to "found rods", and the quoted accuracy of the measurements. Can a surveyor make measurements this accurate? The distances are quoted to 1/100 of a foot, which is about an eighth of an inch, and do typical surveying instruments even register one second of arc? Comments from professional surveyors, please.