[TheForge] Pure Iron

[Frederick Faller]

I just took a look at the spread sheet from
pureiron.com The price per tonne (2200lbs) is about
2200 british pounds/ tonne or about 1 Bpound/ pound.
At the current conversion rate of 0.538659 bpounds/ $
it makes the cost of the iron in quantity at about
$2/lb just for the iron. At 250 Bpounds/tonne for
shipping, it adds another $.50 per pound just to get
it to the U.S. (assmuming the 400 Bpounds for the
first tonne is dwarfed by buying 50 tonnes or so) Then
someone has to handle it, store it and ship it. Gonna
be $3.00 + /lb by the time you get it.

'course you're gonna spend ten hours turning 2 pounds
of the stuff into a georgous door knocker for some
person who's gonna pay you $500 for your trouble. A 1%
material cost is pretty good in most trades.

2 pounds in ten hours, means 10,000 hours to use up a
tonne, or about 5 years ~~~ 

Colled rolled soundin pretty good.

Frederick Faller


--- Cameron Stoker <cameron at stoker.net> wrote:

> 	I'd just like to point out that previously PI went
> for something like 
> $2/lb and then you had to get it shipped from within
> the US. Sure it's 
> pricey compared to A-36, but when you compare it to
> stainless, where it 
> has similar corrosion resistance properties, it'a
> almost the same cost 
> per pound (at least here in NM). If you compare it
> to something like 
> bronze ($6-7/lb), it's very far ahead.
> 	I don't try to use it for every project, but for
> the appropriate ones 
> it is wonderfull. If you're pitching a project to a
> client see if you 
> can't get the architect excited about the corrosion
> resistance 
> properties (even if they don't know the other
> properties of pure iron). 
>    Artchtects love stainless and bronze/copper. You
> just have to get 
> them educated enough to appreciate the ruddy red
> color and 'softer' 
> texture PI shows.
> 	I used it on two significant projects when it was
> available - making 
> replacement pickets and parts for an 1890's wrought
> iron fence, and 
> making a retaining strap for a porous limestone
> fountain. The fence 
> probably didn't _need_ to be iron, but the city
> historic board liked the 
> use of the most historically accurate material for
> the repairs. The 
> fountain design called for the iron to go
> unprotected, and get really 
> rusty, and be the only fastener for the limestone
> blocks. I imagine a-36 
> would crap out in several decades whereas the PI
> should last as long as 
> the owners.
> 	Just my experience with the material.
> 
> -- 
> 		Cameron Stoker
> 		Cameron at stoker.net
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Frederick W. Faller
Shiloh Forge Ironware http://users.rcn.com/ffaller/SFI_web.htm
www.immerland.com

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