[TheForge] Re: File Making

[Andy Gladish]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:37:08 -0700, <schade at acegroup.cc> wrote:

>
> On Mar 24, 2008, at 1:51 PM, Jeffrey Polaski wrote:
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>> Are there any guide lines on how much a hunk of steel can absorb?

> zip, nada, none, zero, zilch, nil
>
> bob

I don't know about that- I regularly dry steel out as part of the preheat  
before welding- I know some of what appears to be water coming out is  
actually condensation but I don't think that's all of it. Cast iron is  
certainly porous.

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