[TheForge] Rust inhibitor

[Michael H. Murphy]

I've run into that process in a number of historical texts.  Also other
types of horn, as well as leather, charcoal, and other organic materials.
Some were more successful than others.  I also heard something about using
olive oil to draw the temper after quenching.  I'm not sure on this, but I
think it had something to do with the boiling point of olive oil being a
good tempering temperature.

Murf

> -----Original Message-----
> From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:theforge-
> bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Dave Mudge
> Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 5:20 PM
> To: 'Sponsored by ABANA'
> Subject: RE: [TheForge] Rust inhibitor
> 
> In the book, "On Divers Arts" the 12 century author, scholar and all
> around
> Renaissance Man, Theophilus describes wrapping up pieces of iron along
> with
> shavings of cow horn or hooves and cooking it in a forge. I think that
> what
> happens is the carbon from the cow stuff gets migrated into the iron to
> form
> some crude steel or at least case hardened iron. I don't have time to look
> it up now.
> 
> Theophilus On Divers Arts
> translated from Latin by
> John Hawthorne & Cyril Stanley Smith
> a Dover Publication
> isbn # 0-486-23784-2
> 
> dave mudge
> dave at magichammer.net
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Kevin Donaho e
> Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 7:36 AM
> To: Sponsored by ABANA
> Subject: RE: [TheForge] Rust inhibitor
> 
> 
> That could go a long way to explain development of cologne and perfume,
> BO
> is one thing, but smoldering cow horn, WHEW!
> 
> Kevin (smells like money to me, but my wife doesn't appreciate it) Donahoe
> 
>     ------Original Message-----
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>     -[mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of Bill Alleman
>     -Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 10:42 PM
>     -To: TheForge
>     -Subject: [TheForge] Rust inhibitor
>     -
>     -
>     -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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