[Sca-cooks] Cast Iron pots??

[Tom Vincent]

Hanging a huge cast iron pot sounds really dangerous.  I hope the hook 
and beam holds up.  Better to place it on the ground.

Duriel

Lisa wrote:
> Never having smelted I cannot comment on the smelting process, but I can
> state that while growing up my dad was given  HUGE cast iron pot with a very
> large crack in it.  After multiple unsuccessful attempts to weld it, he
> managed to partially do so, and then chose to use it as a hanging flower pot
> with a homemade heavy metal hanger.  It was welded enough to keep the dirt
> in, but the cracks that he was unable to weld allowed excess water to drain
> off.  We had great success with most of the plants we grew in this pot, and
> my last planting in it was oregano and thyme, although the last time I saw
> it the oregano was still quite productive, it had choked out the thyme.
>
> Elizabeta of Rundel
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Saint Phlip" <phlip at 99main.com>
> To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 5:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Cast Iron pots??
>
>
>   
>> On 5/31/06, Marcus Loidolt <mjloidolt at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>     
>>>  Benedicte,
>>> cousins and friends all, I have a question...having no clue to the
>>>       
> answer,
>   
>>> can cast iron be recycled? I have one that has a sizable crack in
>>>       
> it...it
>   
>>> won't hold water....
>>> can a metal worker use this for remaking something or just pitch it/
>>> change its use?
>>>
>>> Abot Johann
>>>
>>>       
>> Well, I _can_ be welded, but that doesn't work very well for any object
>>     
> that
>   
>> goes through heating and cooling cycles like a cook pot does, as the
>>     
> welding
>   
>> filler is usually a nickel alloy, and heats and shrinks at a different
>>     
> rate.
>   
>> I have heard of some of the folks doing smelting throwing some cast iron
>>     
> in
>   
>> with the ore for a smelt with some success- in an anaerobic, reducing
>> environment, cast iron will lose much of its carbon and go back to being a
>> ductile version of steel, but there just aren't that many who smelt in
>>     
> SCA.
>   
>> Best bet, if you want to recycle it is to use it as a flower pot holder,
>>     
> if
>   
>> it's arractive enough, or just send it to the scrapyard. Commercial
>>     
> smelters
>   
>> can deal with it, unlike most hobbyists.
>>
>> --
>> Saint Phlip
>>
>> Don't like getting old? Beats the Hel out of the alternative.
>>
>> The purpose of life is not to arrive at the grave, a beautiful corpse,
>> pretty and well-preserved, but to slide in sideways, thoroughly used up,
>> totally worn out, proclaiming, "Wow! What a ride!"
>>
>>     
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