
Rogerrr
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The Claude Moore Colonial Farm project
Rogerrr replied to Christopher Price's topic in Bloomers and Buttons
well this is music to my ears! I live close by -- just across the river in Maryland I don't know if I have the type of ore you're looking for...but you're welcome to it...I have 1 or 2 five gallon buckets of magnetite sand, a bucket or two of magnetite chunks from the Mineral Hill area near Baltimore, and bog iron from the Calvert Cliffs area -
those bellows were interesting....very clever
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has anyone else made one of these?? I just inherited a 4" belt sander that might be perfect for a project like this
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does anyone know much about the process for making electrolytic iron? I did some googling and haven't learned anything useful yet I know some electrolytic processes are pretty simple...and others are complex....I recently did some anodizing of titanium which was very easy
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wonder if this will work... https://picasaweb.google.com/106800196895572422821/BloomPorn2013#5964712375813830914
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IMHO separating the copper & nickel would be an interesting chemistry experiment, but probably not real practical I was thinking....if you find people who use nickel welding rods...they might have little leftover scraps that are useless to them but might work just fine for tossing into a crucible
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will the crucible be on a plinth of some kind -- or rest on the floor of the furnace?
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is this magnetite from river/stream sands? do you ever grind/crush the ore? I've been experimenting with running magnetite sand through old kitchen blenders.....it separates a lot of stuff from the magnetite...the black sand starts to turn red from a lot of fine dust that I assume is hematite the resulting fine material doesn't separate well with a magnet...I wash it with water and pour off the cloudy red liquid .after the magnetite settles to the bottom ...after washing multiple times I dry it & do more magnetic separations... of course blenders are too small to do much vo
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where on long Island?
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I think you should interpret all these resources as a sign that god/thor/nature wants you to smelt iron and is giving you as many hints as possible
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has anyone done any more experimenting with smelting in small furnaces like this? I'm finishing up a small furnace to experiment with:....5" bore, 17" tall... haven't made the hole for the tuyere yet....I'm considering making two holes at different heights & plugging the one I'm not using with something temporary probably gonna give it a week or more to air dry before I start using it
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Noob about to try and make a try a smelting
Rogerrr replied to jo_smith's topic in Bloomers and Buttons
maybe this will help http://www.brightok.net/~rockman/Images/OkIndex.htm -
what about kiln furniture...like those ceramic posts..I think they're mullite...any idea if they would take the heat w/o melting?
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was the crucible sitting on a firebrick, or something to elevate it?