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You can also use the RR spikes to make hawks.
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You can purchase anhydrous borax from this location.
Mark's Forge
Anhydrous is nicer to work with. They have removed most of the water so it does not bubble, but flows like honey instead.
It stays on the steel and does not get into the air as much either.
I have a ton of metallurgical coke sitting on the basketball court, that you can have. A bit of a drive I must admit:o:D
Anyone in my area that is interested in the coke, give me a holler.
Fred
Just buy it from walmart. Take it home and put it in an old coffee can. Then set the can ontop of hot coals in the bbq grill. The next day smash the hardend borax back into powder. -
One thing that you could do to help controll the build up of scale is to put a choke plate on the buner and run a slightly rich flame. For the little bit of scale that will form you can get most of it off by soaking it in white vinagar for a few days. then take it out and rinse it off with lots of water and a 3M pad ie green scruby.
The Blacksmith's Image
in Blacksmithing, General Discussion
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I love it when people come to you to fix things for them and then they want to tell you how to do it. A friend of mine bent the guides on a wood spliter and asked if I could make them right again. So later that day him and his boy (10yo) come over to watch me work. First the kid starts to tell me that I am burning the steel. Then when I started working it with the hammer he starts telling me that I am hiting it wrong And where I should be hitting it. As I returned the steel to the fire I asked him how old he was. When I told him that I have been working metal longer then he has been alive his responce was "your burning the metal again". At this point his father told him to shut up and let me work. I have run into adults that are the same way as that kid.