[TheForge] How to melt steel with sunlight: 2

[peter fels & phoebe palmer]

Why polish up there Jerry. when you can just use it as a mold to cast an 
ice lens, or 7?

On 11/28/2010 9:02 PM, Jerry Frost wrote:
> 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
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> From: "peter fels&  phoebe palmer"<artgawk at thegrid.net>
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> Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 11:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] How to melt steel with sunlight: 2
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>> 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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