On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Henry Vanderbilt <hvanderbilt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yes, I was careful to weasel-word that and not say it was outright > impossible, because I *knew* someone would take that as a challenge <grin> > > But until Omega lists W/Re TC's as a stock item, I think I'm fairly safe in > calling it thoroughly impractical. http://www.kamet-trading.nl/Thermocouple_wires/Tungsten_Rhenium.html Because it's apparently impossible to make a metallurgy joke so obscure that no one sells it. Ben