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

[peter fels]

To be free of cost of fuel constraints!!
      oh  boy!!!!


On Jul 30, 2011, at 5:25 AM, Andrew Vida 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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