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

[Andrew Vida]

Liquid on the hand.  Black.  Oily.

On 7/30/2011 3:45 PM, Bruce Freeman wrote:
> This black stuff was what -- liquid?  gas?  smoke?  Very unclear in
> your message.
>
> I'm thinking some corrosion of metal -- maybe an iron sulfide, which
> is likely dark-colored or black.  It would be solid, or perhaps
> dissolved in water.
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> On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Andrew Vida<osan at netlabs.net>  wrote:
>> 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.
>>>
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