vincentmarche
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LMAO you guys didn't really help him out
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First solo Tamahagane smelt
vincentmarche replied to vincentmarche's topic in Smelting, Melting, Foundry, and Casting
Yes Sir, thats my project for this upcoming weekend. I'm hoping I did things correctly.. Either way it was a fun experience.. although I do have a "ash burns" on my neck and arms to remember it by -
I appreciate all the tips I got from people in the forum! 65 lbs magnetite 200 lbs charcoal total burn time 6 hours approx 3-4 lb charges every 10 min about 30 lbs bloom
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I actually used Corn meal and corn starch with a bit of ground charcoal, added a bit of water, mixed, let dry and crumbled it up to the consistency of the crumbles you would find on top of a Coffee Cake, smelted well, I'm going to post the pics of the smelt and bloom shortly.
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Thanks!
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Fair point, my next step is to make that determination, any advice would be very helpful As it stands now I have about 35 lb bloom not sure of the quality of the metal yet.
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Thanks all for the advice, did my smelt this weekend, went well , will post pics in a new thread.
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Thanks JHCC not the forge it self but a tatara style furnace
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Do you think a typical home leaf blower pushes too much air on its lowest setting??
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The height of the furnace was bout 4- or 4.5 feet high. The blower was a leaf blower. I was thinking that if he turned off the blower for the charge, poured charcoal on top and turned the blow back on that might mitigate some of the problem?
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Hi all, Trying my hand at backyard tatara smelt. I assisted a friend with his last week and a lot of the fine magnetite he purchased online simply blew out of the furnace. Any recommendations on how to work around this? I saw one post where a guy mixed the magnetite with fine charcoal powder and water and make "cakes" with them but there was no other detail. Any thoughts? Thanks, Vincent M
