[TheForge] boing boing pond.

[Bruce .]

Make a video.  I'll watch that.

Bruce
NJ

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:36 PM, Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer <
artgawk at thegrid.net> wrote:

> Still, voice of reason not withstanding, i wanna watch.
>
> On Oct 22, 2014, at 7:36 PM, Bruce . wrote:
>
> Frosty,
> You're dangerous even to listen to (or read).
> Level-headedly.  You launch a hot crucible full of white-hot iron.  What
> happens.  Well, air-resistance aside, the whole thing travels as a lump and
> hits the ice.  But add air resistance and suddenly the molten steel flows
> out of the crucible, becoming molten steel bullets!
> Now add  to this the aiming uncertainty of your homemade trebuchet and you
> might suddenly find yourself in the bulls eye of a hazard greater than a
> tree.  I can visualize Wylie Coyote in this situation ...
>
> Bruce
> NJ
>
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 5:41 PM, jerry Frost <akfrosty at mtaonline.net>
> wrote:
>
> > That might be something to see/hear Pete, there isn't enough cool stuff
> in
> > a
> > person's life. There is a gravel pit lake just down the hill from us and
> I
> > think Jake wouldn't mind me giving it a try if I invited him to watch. I
> > have an old graphite crucible or I could talk to a caster friend about
> one
> > and getting coal or charcoal to iron melting temp isn't a problem for a
> boy
> > with a forge and blower.
> >
> > How's this sound. One disposable crucible, one flame resistant trebuchet
> a
> > hot coal fire and a frozen pond. Lift crucible onto the treb sling, step
> > back, WAY BACK and pull the release on a dark night of course. Hmmmm?
> Then
> > again a ballista would be good to give it a nice linear horizontal
> > trajectory and be a whole LOT safer. If catapulting molten iron can be
> > considered "safer" than just about anything of course.
> >
> > Jer
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: TheForge [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of
> > Peter
> > Fels & Phoebe Palmer
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 9:53 AM
> > To: Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA
> > Subject: Re: [TheForge] boing boing pond.
> >
> > If someone was still puddling iron on a large scale, it'd be fun to try
> it
> > on that pond!
> >
> > On Oct 21, 2014, at 5:40 AM, Bruce . wrote:
> >
> > I saw that.  The sound is indeed cool.  To my ear, it sounds like a
> > "chirp",
> > which is a scientific term, believe it or not, for a waveform that (you
> > guessed it!) sounds like a chirp!
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirp
> > I learned about this waveform from a discussion (?) of Fourier-transform
> > NMR, in which the radio signal exciting the nuclei may be delivered as a
> > chirp in order to scan the wavelength spectrum.
> > Now, this makes me wonder WHY a chirp is produced by skipping rocks, and
> > whether anything can be learned from it.  I( get on these rants every now
> > and then since somebody discovered you could produce X-rays using scotch
> > tape!  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_Tape#X-rays)
> >
> > Bruce
> > NJ
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 2:15 AM, jerry Frost <akfrosty at mtaonline.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> What to do with your fish pond when it freezes over.
> >>
> >> Jer
> >>
> >> http://www.ktuu.com/news/news/rock-skipper-discovers-unique-noise/2915
> >> 8406
> >>
> >
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