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Although we may have the impression that the steel: -industry is a relatively new technology that sprung up in the US in the 1800's, the truth is that the Chinese have been melting and casting iron for thousands of years.
Today, amateur metal workers want to melt cast-iron and pour their own castings not only to save money but to gain satisfaction of having mastered a skill as basic and ancient as iron founding. Mystery surrounds the melting of iron. The high temperatures make it appear difficult. But if it is so difficult how could it have been mastered centuries ago with the  most primitive of tools? What are the secrets?
In this reprint you'll learn the secrets of the cupola -furnace which is probably the simplest reliable furnace for melting iron, a furnace that is rarely seen anymore. As you'll see. cupolas constructed from an old wooden flour barrels and with firebrick have successfully melted iron. Learn the secrets of basic construction, operation and maintenance.
In the second part, learn how a foundry man at the turn of century would have chosen scrap iron for melting in his cupola so that he could obtain the metal characteristics he needed
. Metallurgy has changed much since then, so some of the recommendations and pointers may be obsolete or difficult to implement. Other general principles, no doubt, still apply

What you get in this unusual reprint is raw information ~from experts who were writing at a time when the cupola was the state of the art. You get a chance to "pick their brains" and in time to obtain rare information that will help your metalworking hobby.

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