Fire Welding Flux

[saintjohnbarleycorn]

Originally Posted by Ice Czar

I collect black iron oxide when I do twisting, generally your getting quite a large area of bar fairly hot, twisting it just dumps off all the scale and the twisting jig we use is tack welded to a table which catches it all. Get snowdrifts worth of the stuff.

do you use it for welding then? thanks

[CurlyGeorge]

I put a pan under my horizontal band saw and catch the shavings of the mild steel. It's clean and mixed with Borax seems to do a good bonding job.

[S.Willis]

I just use EZ weld it is already mixed and has the filings in it.

[CurlyGeorge]

I'm just too cheap to buy it. LOL

[Finnr]

Frugal, Curly , frugal!
Finnr

[ThomasPowers]

Curly, I'm saving my scale to smelt back into iron---and you think you are cheap?

[CurlyGeorge]

Never tried that. Let me know if it works, Thomas. LOL

[ThomasPowers]

I've been part of a team running a Y1K bloomery for quite a while and black iron sand was a great ore for it. Scale is the same stuff but with some different elements in it, less Ti for one thing as rutile can hide in black sand.

Hmmm perhaps when I'm building my coal forge smithy I should put in an area for a bloomery with a massive chimney as it does work on CO.

[jimbob]

I want to try "Mystic Flux" from the Orient that Mark Aspery spoke of in his book?...