Re: 1/4 mile of one inch wrought iron

JAB <here@is.invalid> writes:

On 22 Aug 2024 17:56:52 -0300, Mike Spencer
<mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
 

wrought iron

 
 
Wrought is the archaic form of "worked," the more commonly used past
tense and past participle of work.
 
Wrought iron, iron with a very low carbon content that has been
wrought (hammered) by hand.

...in the process of converting what comes out of the blast furnace into
merchant bar.  Both hand (heavy sledge) hammers and power hammers were
used.  In the US, the Saugus Ironworks was operational 30 years after
the Mayflower landed at Plymouth.  Used bog ore for the iron, hauled
limestone from a distance for flux, had an infinite supply of trees
for charcoal to fire the furnace and forges.  Huge power hammer ran on
water, used to beat the big,barely manageable lumps of iron into bar
shape afted two or more rounds of belaboring it with sledge hammers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrought

I'm a former VW mechanic

 
As a summer high school job, I'm a former 'wash person' who took the
wax off of those new VWs:-)

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Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada