[TheForge] back ON TOPIC... eventually Re: Forge welding...The unfortunate truth OT:

[Andrew Vida]

I crave salt.  I have eaten it out of the box since I was about three 
years old.  My BP has been a steady 128/60 since I was perhaps 14.

So much for scholarly research and the ability to reach truthful 
conclusions.

Speaking of blacksmithing, I have a question:  we have two gas lines 
from wells on our property.  The low pressure line was leaking at the 
meter so I removed it and put a new ball valve (even 20# issuing forth 
from a 2" line is impressive) on.  I thought this was the line feeding 
the house, but apparently it is the 35# line.  Anyhow, when I uncorked 
the line, which apparently has been laying inactive for decades, a huge 
plume of black... *something* came bursting forth.  I had to wait a good 
15 minutes before it cleared enough to attempt screwing in the new valve 
such that the skin on my forearm was not blasted to bleeding.

I have been cracking the valve ever few days in the hopes of clearing 
the crap out of the line.  My question is what is this stuff and how in 
hell did it get in there?  It looks like black oxide, but there seems to 
be some black liquid in there as well that deposits on one's hand if put 
in the stream.

Since I have unlimited free natural gas, I plan one of these days to 
build up a distribution tree atop this valve and have one hell of a set 
of gas forges.

Also, anyone know of anyone manufacturing NG fired generators?

On 7/30/2011 2:15 AM, peter fels wrote:
> As Bruce says ,you can croak from lack of table salt..processed or not. Our blood is a bit of the sea we carry with us and if it gets out of adjustment, we have problems.
> Salt never has had other nutritional value, though there are a number of different salts we need or make.
> The BP problems are probably caused by a complex of issues.
>