[TheForge] Rust inhibitor

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Nope:
I know it grows more flexible with heat like a thermplastic...if one 
were to extend that  tendancy.........might work. Wonder if I have any 
cow horn in the piles?( that doesn't sound quite right)....PF

Bill Alleman wrote:

>So I'm watching a show on the Science Channel on recreating the oak 
>cranes likely used to lift the stones for Gothic cathedrals, and a 
>French blacksmith and medieval machinery expert claimed that he can seal 
>his forgings from rust by rubbing them with a cow horn. He rubbed 
>relatively lightly on the still-hot iron. The cow was not still 
>attached. Has anybody tried this one?
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