[TheForge] Seasoning tasting spoons: EXPERIMENT

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Polyethelene goes belly up in sunlight...PF

Grover Richardson wrote:
> I have left sheetrock buckets outside for a long time.  Use them to store
> coal.  They tend to get brittle.
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>>*>-----Original Message-----
>>*>From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
>>*>[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-----
>>*> From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net  
>>*>[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
>>*>
>>*>
>>*> 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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