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Old 01-05-2008, 08:48 PM
RainsFire RainsFire is offline
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Something I dont understand, (theres alot of em..) is why cant we use a metal with a higher melting point to smelt the other one in? Like smelting bronze in a steel crucible.. would it contaminate the metals produced?

Oh, and where in oregon are you located? I'm in the corvallis/philomath area..
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