[Sca-cooks] bellows

[Stefan li Rous]

Phlip gargled back to me:
> Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...
>
>> Hmm. All I've got on bellows is in this file:
>> bellows-msg       (19K)  4/ 2/98    Medieval bellows.
>> http://www.florilegium.org/files/CRAFTS/bellows-msg.html
And then said:
> The set I
> intend to build will be OOP, since they're double lung- I don't think that
> style came in until  the 19th century.

Do you mean a double chamber bellows? If so, yes they appear to be period.
 From the above file:

> From: william thomas powers <powers at cis.ohio-state.edu>
> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 15:34:08 -0400
> Subject: Re: bellows for casting
> Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
> Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information
>  Science
>
<snip>
> Good Lord Stefan;  RUN to a copy of "De Re Metallica" by Agricola,
> Dover has reprinted the Herbert Hoover translation.
>
> In it you will find pictures and instructions on building a period
> "double acting" bellows "like goldsmiths use"  I believe it is at
> least in the chapter on assaying furnaces and such.  Materials used:
> leather, wood, nails.
>
> Note from my bellows experiences please make sure that your nozzle
> incorporates a check valve so you don't end up sucking flames or coals
> into the bellows---this is really needed for single action bellows;
> since double acting should always be venting through the nozzle and never
> filling.
>
> wilelm the smith who brought DRM to Jakarta with him and read several hundred
> pages.


And a bit more, although perhaps this is the book you are already using:

> The Blacksmith - Ironworker & Farrier
> Aldren A. Watson 1977-1990
> W W Norton & Co
> ISBN 0-393-30683-6
>
> The book talks a lot about New England.
>
> On P129-P146 Chapter 11,
> There are full drawings and plans to make a 19C (similar to period style)
> double chamber bellows about 4 1/2 ft long and 3 ft in diameter, including
> how to mount the pole lever.


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