[Sca-cooks] Cast Iron pots??

[Lisa]

The hanger is all metal, and it's been hanging there since I was a teen...
over 20 years, without giving away my exact age hehehe. There's not even a
sway in any of the parts of the hanger... it's well built. :)

Elizabeta of Rundel

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Vincent" <Tom.Vincent at yahoo.com>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Cast Iron pots??


> 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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