SC - Sealing a Cauldron

[Par Leijonhufvud]

On Wed, 7 Oct 1998 Gerekr at aol.com wrote:

> A number of years ago our barony's big annual do (Egil's Tourney 
> Skallagrimmsonnar) had a "food and cookware" theme tourney prize.  A 
> small riveted cauldron was part of this prize, about 2 gallon?  I believe 
> the maker sealed it by cooking several large batches of oatmeal in it... 
> no fooling, the "porridge juice" sealed the seams. 8-)
> 
> However, my husband, who has since taken up metalworking, is of the 
> opinion that while the porridge method is fine for modern mild steel 
> construction, in period they used wrought iron, which will weld at only 
> red heat.  (Steel takes white heat to weld... very easy to burn thru the 
> thin metal while trying to reach that heat.)

Interesting. I've seen modern copies of these pots that have had the
seams welded shut as well. Very interesting if this was the period
method as well.

/UlfR

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Par Leijonhufvud                                   parlei(at)algonet.se
Anti-paranoia: the eerie feeling that nothing is connected to anything
else.

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