Loris Matesic Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 Hello my fellow magicians! Allow me to present to you my (hopefully successful) project of experimental archaeometallurgy, which I am writing my dissertation about. After 30+ burning cycles, ultimately ending in various degrees of failure, I introduce to you my very first buttons, created by the 'co-fusion' process: and weighing in at 40 grams: Meet my button 'A', rapidly cooled: And button B, cooled with the furnace: A sneak peak of the dendritic structure on sample 'A'. Button 'B' has unfortunately leaked a bit, and thus corroded. It was tested by me on spectrometer to an average carbon content of 0.56 %, while the button 'A' has an average of 0.88 % carbon. They have some higher manganese, from the construction steel I used, and high silicone, due to the source of cast iron; otherwise they are low alloyed. My point was to systematically test the different cooling rates' effects on equally charged crucibles... but that went down the drain, so now I am floating in the sea of information and data, without a question to discuss. Oh, and I was aiming to get 1.5%C, triple checked the math. Thus, I welcome myself to the cruel and unforgiving world of crucible steel making. I have passed into it from my love of knife making. Living in a city, I am troubled with forging, so I usually resort to the stock removal lore (sorry!) I will post more photos once Google Drive allows me to. Until then, criticize away! Best, Loris 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan Ysselstein Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 (edited) Loris, Cooling rate and dendrite arm spacing has been researched and documented extensively. I do not know how you are melting/cooling/forging but for a dissertation you may want to go to induction melting using alumina crucibles. Controlling all the variables will be a challenge. Edited July 12, 2021 by Jan Ysselstein 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Schneider Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 Very cool! Look forward to seeing how this turns out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loris Matesic Posted August 13, 2021 Author Share Posted August 13, 2021 Almost done with the writing so I will elaborate more, once I have enough time 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Schneider Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 Awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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