[TheForge] Teaching blacksmithing and insurance

Mon Dec 8 23:06:00 2003

Nope, won't work, Pete.  With water in it the max temp will be 212 degrees, 
or 100C.  Possibly  this would work just fine with air pressure, though I 
just  feel that  a pressure vessel  filled with air makes a nice 
bomb.  Might try blowing it up with water, empty and spot anneal with a 
torch,and then refill it  and pump it up again.

>Now, to get us back on topic, or closer anyway.............
>Blacksmithing content....experiment of sorts. Been messing around with 
>hollow body steel forms made ala Elizabeth Brim, but inflated cold, 
>annealed, with 130 PSI of water pressure instead of  hot.  I'd hoped 
>that  it would be possible to heat indented areas with a rosebud while 
>under pressure and pop out the dents.
>It didn't work very well.
>I'm making note of this to make the point that many experiments fail.
>If you don't risk failure, you  don't have much chance of doing something new.
>
>PF

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