[TheForge] Mastermyr - Fire Grid

Sun May 26 21:13:00 2002

Thanks, Michael- I kinda thought it might be. Was figuring on using pure
iron- if carbon had been higher, maybe hot rolled mild.

Will likely use the ZHR mild for a prototype, since I have it in the right
sizes, and buy some pure for the presentation piece.

Phlip

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Horgan" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 8:38 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Mastermyr - Fire Grid

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>
>
> >Jan got me the name of the museum- maybe I'll try to email them, and if
that
> >doesn't work, write them a letter. Jan- you maybe into doing some
> >translation? Might not be soon enough to help you for LaCrosse, but it
might
> >help me with the accuracy when I do mine.
> >
> >Does it say that the piece is made of bog iron somewhere? Or is that just
an
> >assumption someone made, because of the location? I'd really love an
> >analysis of the material- considering what I have on hand, I'll likely
make
> >a prototype in hot-rolled mild, and consider maybe using pure iron, or
Real
> >(tm) wrought later.....
> >
> >Phlip, off thinking and mumbling......
> >
>
> Since I have a copy of an earlier edition of "The Mastermyr Find". I can
> say that the metallurgical analysis, shows most of the tools are pure
iron,
> i.i.e.., less than .002% carbon. In the pieces they examined, no sign of
> case hardening, Some few pieces of cutting tools show a welded bit of
> steel, .4% carbon, as the cutting edge, but most of the iron  is as pure
as
> can be, according to Appendix II, "A Metallurgical Examination of some
iron
> objects from Mastermyr" by Sten Modin
>
> Michael D. Horgan , [email protected]
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