I tried another steel remelt last weekend using a short stack furnace. I think the results were a little better this time than last time, but the jury is still deliberating. This was done with 3 pounds of 4d cut nails, (1.5" long) using some of my pine charcoal.
Here is the short stack furnace with the pre-heat burning.
And running the melt
At first I couldn't find anything in the furnace digging around with my tongs, so I let it cool down a bit and finally pulled something solid out of the very bottom. Here is the puck, blob thingy.
This thing was incredi