[TheForge] Drilling angles etc/ now sulfur

[Bob Ehrenberger]

Thanks, I may try that once it warms up enough that it doesn't just freeze 
into a bucket full of black ice. My shop is unheated so during the winter I 
have to be carefull how much water I put on the coal, it's not nice to have 
my coal bin freeze up.

Robert Ehrenberger
Shelbyville, Mo.
eforge at centurytel.net


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Subject: Re: [TheForge] Drilling angles etc/ now sulfur


If the bigger chunks of coal burn ok put the fines in a bucket,  fill the
bucket with water. scoop the wet fines and place around the edges of the
fire.  It should coke up into chunks and burn great.


> The reason I'm asking is someone gave me some coal that they found in a
> shed
> on a farm that they just got. I tried it out, and it is really nasty
> stuff.
> I could barely get it to burn in the forge because of all the fines.  It
> doesn't coke up like good coal, the fines just go to the bottom of the
> fire
> pot and clog things up.  So I sifted the fines out and the chunks burned
> (so
> so). Finally I mixed the chunks in with good coal and could get a pretty
> decent fire out of it. It's not great but I have a 55 gal drum of the
> stuff
> that I need to use up and I'd rather burn it than just throw it away.
>
> Any way I was wondering what to do with the fines. When I saw your post,
> it
> gave me hope that it might actually be good for my garden, depending on
> what
> it does to it. So is high sulfer coal dust safe for the soil? Or is it
> only
> good for certan types of soil?  And what would they be?
>
> Robert Ehrenberger
> Shelbyville, Mo.
> eforge at centurytel.net
>
> ----Original message----
> From: Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer <artgawk at thegrid.net>
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Drilling angles etc/ now sulfur
>
> Hi Bruce;
> I've used sulfur a number of times successfully to set steel into stone
> and it lasts indefinitely as far as i know.
> I don't recall it's turning red when molten though.
> I have used garden sulfur. There used to be a huge pile under a chute at
> a local refinery and no one minded if i filled 5 gallon buckets with it.
> It was selling for about $10/# then.
>