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[terry l. ridder]

hello

given the impurities in modern day metals; how did the Celts, Norse, etc
manage to create any metal of any reasonable purity?
the Gold and Silver artifacts appear to be high purity metals.
The Iron swords, spear heads, etc do not exhibit any large degree of
impurities.

How were the Celts able to make iron enough in order to make weapons?
They also made tools, single head axe, hatchets, meat hooks, chains.

I am still trying to figure out how they smelted copper in such quanity
to construct these large cauldrins and vats.

On Sat, 2 Mar 2019, Dave Smucker wrote:

> Even with chip breakers these steels with sulfur and also lead really
> improve high speed machining.  For many products this is very big cost
> saving.  These steels don't forge well, nor do they weld (arc) well either.
> Locally we can get free drops from a company making items for Snap On
> but it not worth working with even if it is free.  Most of these steels
> I have seen are sold as bar stock for use in high speed machine centers
> or screw machine lathes.
>
> Dave Smucker
> Brasstown, NC
>

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terry l. ridder ><>