[TheForge] Drilling angles etc/ now sulfur

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Bruce, does the sulfur turn red once it's achieved a specific 
temperature, and does it stay that way once it's cooled?
What are the cooled mass's properties?  pf

Bruce Freeman wrote:
> Peter,
> 
> Wonderful information.
> The "creamy" consistency of the melted sulfur suggests to me that it
> had not undergone rearrangement from the yellow S8 to the  red poly-S.
>  Interesting.
> Careful with the roofing application.  As you mention, sulfur is not
> fire resistant.
> 
> Bob,
> Garden sulfur is just sulfur for gardens.  Do not confuse the fines in
> coal with sulfur, thought there might be a lot of the latter in the
> former.  Some fines can be burned by wetting them to a putty or thick
> paste.  They'll coke up as a solid lump.  But other fines are just
> dirt.
> 
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> 
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer
> <artgawk at thegrid.net> wrote:
>> Hi Bob;
>>
>> Bob Ehrenberger wrote:
>>> Peter,
>>> I had never heard the term "garden sulfur" before. What is is used for in
>>> the garden?
>> It's used to acidify alkaline soil.
>>> 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.
>> I once saw Bruce Northridge take similar coal and wash it in a tub of
>> water, leaving the fines behind, with success. Someone else had to clean
>> it up.
>>> 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?
>> Coal varies a lot in bonus ingredients, mercury among them..I'd sooner
>> use it as pothole filler than put it in a garden.
>> My friend Ed Nater is one of the foremost experts on the question if you
>> really want an in depth answer.pf
>>> 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.
>>>
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