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From: Russ Garrett <r...@garrett.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 12:24:57 +0100
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Subject: Re: [london-hack-space] Smelting and casting iron
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Can I first cover a point of pedantry: smelting (converting metal ore
into metal through the chemical process of reduction) is quite
different to melting.

On 15 October 2012 11:59, Johnathan Phan <j.p...@ox-consulting.com> wrote:
> 1> Build a furnace that is reusable several hundred times.

We have one of these at the space, it's a Gingery furnace:

http://www.experiment4.com/2011/08/30/the-gingery-furnace/

There is a copy of Gingery's books (which cover building a
metalworking shop from scratch) in the library, but please don't
remove them from the space.

Billy and a few others have been doing some casting work, so they're
the people to talk to.

-- 
Russ Garrett
r...@garrett.co.uk