[TheForge] Meteoric iron - wrap it in foil

[Grover Richardson]

	Meteoric iron tends to be a chocolate chip cookie of assorted iron
and dross.  The exact mix depends upon blind luck.  Some folks get chocolate
chips of iron, some chocolate chips of slag<G>.
	If I were to try to work it, I would first melt it in a crucible to
separate the iron from the slag.  Then, with a hunk of real metal, you can
forge what you want.

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Subject: Re: [TheForge] Meteoric iron - wrap it in foil


After about a dozen attempts at getting an iron meteor to stick together
when 
hammered, I wrapped it in stainless steel foil, the stuff sold to wrap tool 
steel before heat treating to avoid scale from oxidation.  Heated the
package, 
forged it and ground off the stainless.  The knife that I made from it was 
very soft and good for conversation mostly.  Oh, and I also made the mistake
of 
pickling the blade in nitric and it ate a hole right thru in a couple of 
places, I assume because of the non-metallics (crud) that was also in the
meteorite. Mike Schermerhorn _______________________________________________
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