[TheForge] Finishing Pure Iron

[Roy Wilson]

On Mon, 01 Apr 2002 11:24:16 -0500, Bruce Freeman wrote:

>  Anthracite and a good blower.  Never saw "rust" that color before
>- might be a sulfide or something.
>
>
>Roy, 
>There is a yellow iron sulfide, so I guess that's possible.  Doesn't strike me as real likely though.  
>The pure iron comes with a powdery red rust, but I've only seen black scale on it out of the forge.  I haven't let a piece rust to see what that would look like.

  Could be from the oil I quenched with too.  Hang on ...  Ok,
checked the quiver.  The broadheads I made from the PI are covered
in yellow powder "rust" again.  Wipes right off onto my thumb.

  I've still got some 1x1 PI bar stock, if it ever stops raining
I'll bang up a piece with propane heat and see if it does the same.
 I'll open a new bucket of oil as well for it.



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