Making Steel

[BushMasterBoy]

If you want to find a way to make gold or silver, I'm in. Think I'll pass on steel.

If you want to melt gold or silver I have a website! Got some ore on your property and need to assay it? (No it won't melt steel) but you could melt your Grandmas silverware and mold it into silver bullets for the coming zombie apocalypse. It will melt a silver quarter (pre 1964) in less than 3 minutes from a cold start. Link to website below:

www.portablesmelter.com

[TFOGGER]

I think the point would be more a proof of concept that you COULD do this, push come to shove, rather than an enjoyable hobby. Making steel would make you a king in a post technological society.

[Bill]

There is strength in knowledge, and in such knowledge there is Pride

[mcantar18c]

I'm having daydreams about taking a pile of sand, turning it into a boar knife and bringing home dinner with it, and passing it down to my grandkids... I'll be watching this thread closely.

[68Charger]

I've got a propane forge here at the house (belongs to a friend of mine, but he can't keep/use it where he lives, so it lives at my house)

we'd also need an Anvil (or at least an ASO- I have some railroad rail that we could form into a small one), some appropriate hammers/mauls, tongs, and a significant amount of propane, plus safety gear (leather apron & gloves, face shield)

and of course, raw material to work with- I've got some steel, I've heard that leaf springs make great material for forging into knives...

[BushMasterBoy]

Black sand is iron ore found in a placer. Steel is iron that has carbon added, hence "carbon steel".


Basic primer on steel:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel

[DD977GM2]

I've got a propane forge here at the house (belongs to a friend of mine, but he can't keep/use it where he lives, so it lives at my house)

we'd also need an Anvil (or at least an ASO- I have some railroad rail that we could form into a small one), some appropriate hammers/mauls, tongs, and a significant amount of propane, plus safety gear (leather apron & gloves, face shield)

and of course, raw material to work with- I've got some steel, I've heard that leaf springs make great material for forging into knives...

Where the heck is Penrose....my ability to google search is lazy today and to lazy to move onto the google maps page

[mcantar18c]

Where the heck is Penrose....my ability to google search is lazy today and to lazy to move onto the google maps page

COS area.

[DD977GM2]

COS area.

Thats not so bad then, I was thinking something like Alamosa or Trinidad area

[68Charger]

Thats not so bad then, I was thinking something like Alamosa or Trinidad area

about 20mi SW of COS... where hwy 115 and hwy 50 come together (that probably isn't helping)

I'm north of Penrose- if it were a town, I wouldn't be in the town limits, I technically live in "Fremont county", but that confuses people even more