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dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 23 9:52 am Post subject:
i could not possibly say

Ty Gwyn

Joined: 22 Sep 2010
Posts: 4613
Location: Lampeter

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 23 11:49 am Post subject:
Maybe the proposed battery factory to be built in the West Country?

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8914
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 23 12:22 pm Post subject:

dpack wrote:

i could not possibly say

I think Private Eye did

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15965

Posted: Mon Sep 11, 23 7:02 am Post subject:

Still the best steel traditionally was made with charcoal, but quantity and cost are the main challenges there. I know a blacksmith who makes Damascus steel blades using charcoal. Most smiths prefer coke, but he likes charcoal better. We have given him some for his travelling forge a a present when we have been at the same show. Sadly he has gone to Canada so wish him and his family well out there.

Until coke became the norm, the iron industry was centred on the Weald of Kent and Sussex. The woodland was used to make the charcoal and there are still what are known as 'hammer ponds' down some of the valleys where the water was stored to run the bellows and hammers.

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