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smelt video from begginning to end

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  • nice one m8!!

    Please explain to me what do you do with that liquid Fe that solidifies? And what do you do with the slag? What is slag anyway?

    (Wikipedi mentions so many foreign terms to me so I don't get shit what they say) :D

  • What you call "liquid Fe that solidifies" is the slag. Slag is iron and silica oxides.

  • nice vid! thanks for sharing. but compressed air? i wanted to see a couple guys working bellows! :P

    is the bloom steel or is it iron? i thought this process yields only iron but i'm certainly no expert.

  • Mostly steel and some cast iron and barely any wrought iron.

  • Book: "The Mastery and Uses of Fire in Antiquity"

    Ore: I think I used hematite for this smelt, together with charcoal and flux.

  • Any kind of iron oxide will work.

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  • Excellent choice of radio program =) NPR produces some of the most entertaining radio in America

  • ok, thanks! but what do you do with it afterwards?

  • Great video - thanks for filming this.

    Can you recommend any books on the process?

    Did you just add charcoal, limestone and iron ore? Which ore did you use?

    Thanks!

  • can torch slag be used as an iron source ?

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