[TheForge] Re: Water on your coal forge fire?

[Mike Linn]

I beg to differ..  There is an outfit in Atlanta named L-Brand that sells 
great coke by the bag.

We sold a huge pallet worth a few years back at the AFC conference and I 
really like it.
Ed will work out a deal with the local groups and will ship anywhere.


1155 Settles Pointe Suite 100
Atlanta GA 30024-4270
Phone: 800-441-0616
Contact: Ed Avolio
E-Mail: LBrandForgeCoke at aol.com




At 01:32 PM 5/31/2004, you wrote:

> > Why does everyone use coal? Can't you buy coke in the US?
>
>No.  Well, almost no.
>
>I was at the Hereford conference in 1980 and saw all you guys (and the
>international demonstrators) using pea coke. Is that what you call
>"breeze"?  I don't believe I've ever seen it this side of the pond.
>Nice hot, clean fires.
>
>I once did a demo in Ontario using nut-sized coke.  The guy who was
>hosting the the affair drove to the US to get it -- Cleveland, maybe?
>I forget.  I liked it a lot but I'm 1500 miles from his source and I
>gathered it was the kind of deal, anyhow, where you had to go and make
>nice with the guys on site to get it.
>
>The Nova Scotia College of Art & Design had a bunch of coke in the 70s
>that I used for a course I gave.  But it came in random chunks from
>brick sized up to basket ball size.  I hadda get there early every
>time to crush some for the evening's demos.  And it was *very* hard
>and difficult to crush without a proper mechanical crusher.  Way less
>friable than what I think of as "ordinary" coke.  It made a very
>nice, clean fire that was a bit hard to manage.
>
>And someone recently gave me a bag of coke, about golf-ball sized,
>some of what he had found in a cellar bin in an old house.  Origin
>unknown, supply limited to the few bushels that were there.
>
>So I'd be real happy to have a few tons of pea coke but it doesn't
>seem to be a common article of commerce in (eastern?) North America.
>If it is, it's very localized.
>
>---
>
>Okay, googling for pea coke, it looks like there's a company in Ohio
>who produces pea coke as a by-product.
>
>      http://www.bta.ohio.gov/98j731.pdf
>
>is a court proceeding (Jan 2000) in which a steelco describes its coke
>and coal processing in detail.  E.g.,
>
>     The material that falls through the screen is conveyed to a third
>     screen.  The third screen further separates the finer materials,
>     called pea coke or nut coke, and breeze.  The breeze is sold,
>     although some is used in appellant's soaking pits. The pea
>     coke is selectively charged with ore pellets and used in the blast
>     furnace.
>
>Anybody live near USS/Kobe Steel Co. in Loraine, Ohio?  Can you get pea
>coke there?  Cheap?  Easily?  Bags?  Pickup truck?  Gondola car?  Is
>their "breeze" big enough to use in a forge?
>
>
>- Mike
>
>--
>Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~.
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>mspencer at tallships.ca                                     /( )\
>http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/                        ^^-^^


            Mike Linn
      Artist Blacksmith
          McCalla, AL
        AFC Webmaster
http://afc.abana-chapter.com

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