[TheForge] Re: Pickling solutions

[Mike Spencer]

me> BTW, a quick google reveals that some -- a very few -- people
me> refer to this stuff as "kelrod".  Is there another name for it?

Charles> I have always heard it refered to as Calrod, which is a brand
Charles> name....
Charles> http://www.gloquartz.com/products/tubular_htrs/elements.htm

Hah!  Thank you very much.  Why couldn't I have though of that
spelling?  I learned that it was called "kelrod" from an engineer who
never got an university degree.  His strong suite was superb
implementations of other people's tech specs, not spelling. :-)

I'll have to explore that site.  Custom made Calrod(R) heaters for
an acid bath might be be handy.  Dick Quinnell has a rather large
phosphoric acid tank in his shop with a Calrod heater that doesn't get
in the way of pickling.


BTW, just stumbled over this yarn on the web.  Some of the jobs that
come into a blacksmith shop!  Well I never!  I have a special swage
for forming the rib on a scythe blade.  I wonder if that other one I
could never figure out was for dealing with Baba Yaga's little job....


http://www.coe.int/T/E/Cultural_Co-operation/culture/Completed_projects/Legends/belarus.asp

- Mike

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