Xref: utzoo rec.org.sca:4672 trial.rec.metalworking:15 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!munnari.oz.au!bunyip!metro!otc!wayner From: wayner@otc.otca.oz (Wayne Robinson) Newsgroups: rec.org.sca,trial.rec.metalworking Subject: Re: Blacksmithing Message-ID: <1823@otc.otca.oz> Date: 29 Jul 90 22:37:41 GMT References: Lines: 19 in article , legowik@cme.nist.gov (Steven Legowik) says: > Xref: otc rec.org.sca:613 trial.rec.metalworking:5 > In-reply-to: wayner@otc.otca.oz's message of 23 Jul 90 23:02:07 GMT > > > I haven't yet had the opportunity to experiment with a whole lot of > different types of coals (or cokes). Amanda, you are the second > enough fire. Wayne, if you are having trouble getting a weld to take > there is probably something wrong with the forge, the fire, or your > technique, not the coal. You are fluxing the steel before trying to > make the weld arn't you? I use borax, but I can only weld on a "new" fire. After a few hours I just can't get it to welding heat. At least I can't burn the steel:-). A blacksmith friend on mine has the same trouble with hip portable forge so it could be a design fault. What do you people use as flux? Wayne.