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Blast Blower Some 2,500 Years Old Has Been Discovered in XinJiang (Urumchi)
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| 6-6-2004
Posted on 06/06/2004 4:50:09 PM PDT by blam
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posted on
06/06/2004 4:50:14 PM PDT
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blam
To: blam
Caucasian Mummies in China in this period.
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posted on
06/06/2004 4:52:41 PM PDT
by
blam
To: farmfriend; Fedora; JimSEA
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posted on
06/06/2004 4:54:12 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
One assumes they are talking about Tuyeres of some type.
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posted on
06/06/2004 4:57:07 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: blam
I thought we already KNEW that the bronze age man used blowers in their smelting - that's how they got the heat high enough to melt the ores?
Or is this another attempt to re-write history?
Oh yeah - I think the ones that used to be given credit were a 'caucasian' bronze age man?
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posted on
06/06/2004 5:02:06 PM PDT
by
steplock
(http://www.gohotsprings.com)
To: tet68
Presumably. (I had to look it up)
Tuyeres
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posted on
06/06/2004 5:02:06 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
The use of mud tuyeres allowed primitive African tribes to smelt metals early on. With out forced blast it's difficult
to reach elevated temps.
Blacksmith for 30 years.
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posted on
06/06/2004 5:04:46 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: blam
The water cooled tuyeres in your link are primarily used
in Blast furnace operations.
Even with forced blast from a Catalan forge the most wrought iron ball that could be formed in the puddling
process was a couple of hundred pounds, it wasn't until
the Bessemer process that mass production of steel really
took off.
Here they are concerned with bronze casting but anything
that would make the process more efficient was important.
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posted on
06/06/2004 5:09:47 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: tet68
You don't melt metal in a camp fire, where did the knowledge come from?
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posted on
06/06/2004 5:14:37 PM PDT
by
Little Bill
(Welcome to the Gay State!)
To: steplock
"Oh yeah - I think the ones that used to be given credit were a 'caucasian' bronze age man?" The oldest bronze smeltering site ever discovered is in Thailand. (You missed the point completely)
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posted on
06/06/2004 5:14:45 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
"Blast Blowers" ?
I though this thread was about Bill, Hillary and James Carville.
Never mind.
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posted on
06/06/2004 5:14:57 PM PDT
by
Mr. Jazzy
(I think James Brown said it best, "Shabbbbab-brezeee, nahn, uuhhh, Can't hep myseff.")
To: tet68
"Blacksmith for 30 years." LOL, chip-maker, 30 years.
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posted on
06/06/2004 5:17:16 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
What is a Blast Blower? I think I was sleeping during the Blast Blower class.
To: blam
At first I thought an errant gardener had left his leaf blower behind.
To: Little Bill
Well, actually you do, or at least you can with copper ore.
It is possible to do some smithing in a wood fire, the cherokee indians here in Ga, used to use hickory blocks,
but for real smithing a forced blast is necessary, in other
parts of the world a simple fan, a goat skin or even breath
power does the trick.
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posted on
06/06/2004 5:21:36 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Mr. Jazzy
I thought he meant leaf blower:
To: tet68
It is possible to do some smithing in a wood fire, the cherokee indians here in Ga, used to use hickory blocks, but for real smithing a forced blast is necessary, in other parts of the world a simple fan, a goat skin or even breath power does the trick. Absolutly, and with bronz, the tin requires the higher temps that twyers give. Also, some copper smelting requires higher temps depending on the impurity. As a blacksmith, you would be interested in some of the forge setups they have found in Southeast Asia. Some of the later replacement casting methods were ingenious.
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posted on
06/06/2004 7:12:07 PM PDT
by
JimSEA
( "More Bush, Less Taxes.")
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
Note: this topic was posted 6/6/2004. Thanks blam. Nice weekly digest ping, despite its age.
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08/30/2014 5:12:16 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Little Bill; tet68
YEAH, that’s one of the mysteries of civilization I wonder about. Who was the guy that said, “Say Moog, I think I’ll see if this rock burns and something comes out of it that we can use.”
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posted on
08/30/2014 6:42:03 PM PDT
by
wildbill
(If you check behind the shower curtain for a murderer, and find one... what's your plan?)
To: wildbill
"YEAH, thats one of the mysteries of civilization I wonder about. Who was the guy that said, Say Moog, I think Ill see if this rock burns and something comes out of it that we can use." I think it was probably more like, "hey, come look at this stuff that's left where we had the big camp fire last night. I wonder if we can do that again? Where did you get those rocks that made the fire turn green a little?
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posted on
08/30/2014 8:27:56 PM PDT
by
blam
(Jeff Sessions For President)
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