[TheForge] Re: Sheet Metal Bender

[GHS]

Mike Spencer wrote:

>GHS> For whatever my opinion is worth, use the galvanized iron 24gage.
>GHS> First time make the fire hot and have the door and window open.
>GHS> After the first ten minutes you should have no more zinc fumes.
>
>I dunno about that. For a forge, you should never be getting your
>smokebox or flue hot enough to emit the white flocculent stuff -- zinc
>oxide -- that you see when burning off zinc.
>  
>
Mike the point was, that if he built one hotter than usual fire the 
first time any zinc problem he might ever have would be eliminated.
My galv hood still has all its galvanizing intact after that treatment,  
so I know how it doesn'y have to cook off.
He was just worried about it and that procedure should put his mind at rest.

Reading what I wrote I can see how you would read it the way you did.

Mike Graf

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