September 16, 201114 yr I always wondered what the smallest practical size would be for a puddling furnace. It tends to make me scratch my head when someone uses the words, "practical" and "puddling furnace" in the same sentence. Frosty the Lucky.
September 16, 201114 yr It tends to make me scratch my head when someone uses the words, "practical" and "puddling furnace" in the same sentence. Frosty the Lucky. Now I am scratching my head. Are we parsing words or concepts here ?
September 16, 201114 yr I think Frosty is just suggesting that it's not a very practical idea. Lots of work and experimentation to recreate a scaled-down version of an obsolete technology, to produce an obsolete product that can be still be obtained fairly easily, or made in other ways with guidance from people who are currently doing it (i.e., various kinds of bloomery smelting). With puddling I think you'd be pretty mucn on your own, since AFAIK no one is doing that nowadays. But there are a fair number of folks out there smelting bloomery iron nowadays. That doesn't mean that building a puddling furnace wouldn't be fun and educational, of course!
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