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Old 05-13-2008, 07:16 PM
mark stephen mark stephen is offline
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Default sand as flux

Silica sand was used as a flux when everyone was forge welding true wrought iron and not todays mild steel.The forge welding temps are higher for wrought and the silica would act as borax does with todays mild steels and high carbon steels.
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