[TheForge] Re: Induction Forge?

[Steve Smith]

Good point Mike.

Steve
who will get this project far enough to see some results in about eight 
years

Mike Spencer wrote:

> sos> Apart from exploding tooth fillings there are a couple of less
> sos> obvious hazards.
> 
> How about steel pins in the bones and epicardial pacemaker leads? [1]
> 
> I had a chance to take part in pour of several pounds of aluminum at
> MIT, a demo for visiting high school students from Roxbury.  They were
> to use an induction outfit that would do the melt in, IIRC, a few
> seconds.  I opted to leave the building because no one had a clue
> about the effect of large high frequency magnetic fields on the
> pacemaker lead. [2]
> 
> - Mike
> 
> [1] Not to mention that the tiny, metal corkscrew tips of epicardial
>     leads typically break off after a few years and migrate within the
>     body, usually doing no harm.  But having it yanked hither and yon
>     or heated to red would be a whole 'nother story.
> 
> [2] No pacemaker, just the lead, for reasons too off topic to get into
>     here.
>