[TheForge] How to melt steel with sunlight: 2

[Jerry Frost]

I've given thought to buying an old 6' plus satellite dish and polishing it 
but wouldn't you know by time I had room they were pretty much all gone. Oh 
well.

Jer
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "peter fels & phoebe palmer" <artgawk at thegrid.net>
To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 11:30 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] How to melt steel with sunlight: 2


>I brought the solar forge up because historically, vast forests, all
> across the old world,  were felled to make charcoal
> for metal smelting and working.
> It was an ecological disaster.
> OK..the potters helped..but we made the axes.
>
> On 11/26/2010 2:42 PM, Bruce Freeman wrote:
>> How to melt steel with sunlight:
>>
>> http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/11/2_square_meters_of_sunlight_focused.html
>>
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