[TheForge] Seasoning tasting spoons: EXPERIMENT

[Grover Richardson]

I have left sheetrock buckets outside for a long time.  Use them to store
coal.  They tend to get brittle.

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>*>[mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Kevin Donahoe
>*>Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 8:33 AM
>*>To: Sponsored by ABANA
>*>Subject: RE: [TheForge] Seasoning tasting spoons: EXPERIMENT
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>*>Bruce,
>*>
>*>As a blacksmith, have you tried it?  Do you know what number 
>*>(inside the recycle triangle) polyethelene would be on the container?
>*>
>*>Sounds like another experiment?  who wants to grate up a 5 
>*>gal bucket, or two, one white, one black and set the stuff 
>*>outside for a year ;)?  I suppose there's a chipper/shredder 
>*>out there that would eat strips of the stuff, and put out 
>*>some chips that could be suspended in, whatever solution? to 
>*>distribute it evenly on the warm iron with a brush.
>*>
>*>Just rambling...Kevin D
>*>
>*>
>*>
>*> -----Original Message-----
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>*>[mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of Bruce Freeman
>*> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 7:59 AM
>*> To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
>*> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Seasoning tasting spoons: EXPERIMENT
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>*>
>*> Purely paraffinic (saturated) mineral oil won't "dry" (i.e.,
>*> polymerize).   Unsaturated "mineral" oils should dry, but I don't
>*> know a convenient source of these, other than chemical catalogs.
>*>
>*> There IS a work-around, though.  Polyethylene is 
>*>essentially  "polymerized mineral oil".  It can be melted 
>*>onto a hot surface.  Works pretty well, and looks nice.  I 
>*>don't know why blacksmiths  don't use this more often.  It 
>*>could be the answer to all those  questions of protecting 
>*>steel outdoors.
>*>
>*> Bruce
>*>
>*> >>> lance at bentoaks.org 8/15/2005 11:12:14 PM >>>
>*> try mineral oil, clean and doesn,t turn or get sticky
>*>
>*>
>*>  Lance
>*>
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