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vtsteam:
Put them hot into a bucket of wood ashes. It's perfect insulation for this kind of thing. They'll cool slowly to annealed state.
awemawson:
Concrete 're-bar' hardens nicely as a chisel in most cases, unless it's Chinese and made from melted down Twin Towers !
S. Heslop:
I remembered reading about people putting them in buckets of sand, etc. But being fairly thin I imagine they'd lose alot of their heat to the sand as soon as they're put in.
So when you say wood ashes do you mean hot wood ashes? I've got alot of wood scraps that I still need to get rid of. Also should they be glowing before putting them in the wood ashes/ fire or will the wood fire be enough to heat them up?
I did look this stuff up a while ago but I just found a bunch of junk about knife-making. I think 95% of people playing with hot metal are making knives. I'm not sure if i'll ever understand the appeal of knives.
S. Heslop:
--- Quote from: awemawson on June 10, 2015, 04:56:47 PM ---Concrete 're-bar' hardens nicely as a chisel in most cases, unless it's Chinese and made from melted down Twin Towers !
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I'm still keeping my eye out for some of the stuff, but despite being apparently ubiquitous i'm having a hard time finding any. I suppose a builders merchants might stock some but they also probably sell them in considerable lengths/ quantities.
I guess any time there's demolition going on of something that'd be full of rebar they'd tend to block the sites off.
awemawson:
--- Quote from: S. Heslop on June 10, 2015, 04:57:55 PM --- I'm not sure if i'll ever understand the appeal of knives.
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Well said that man !
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