[TheForge] burns

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

On Jan 20, 2013, at 5:50 PM, Mike Spencer wrote:


PF wrote:

> My personal  burn drill goes...

One you omitted is "touch the anvil".

Does that have any conceivable basis in fact, not fancy?

If (a) your burn is from grasping a hot thing and (b) you have an
unheated shop in somepace like New England or Minnesota (or Nova
Scotia), yes.

If you grasp the horn of the icy cold anvil, your hand is rapidly
cooled in the same places that it was burned by grasping the hot
thing.

Good plan early in the day Mike...
depending on the weather and how long and hot you have been working.
Water is really good for moving heat,
and it has a chance to penetrate seared skin pretty quick.

So..first the quench followed by the horn, in the morn?
This is getting worse than the Ga-Ga stuff, fast.


Okay, okay, beyond that we risk getting into "which way does your
anvil horn point", magnetic anvil mojo and similar ga-ga territory.

FWIW,
- Mike

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