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At temperatures that would ensure the carbon diffusing into the iron bars, I think there wouldn't be much charcoal left. Charcoal forms around 280C plus or minus and carbon diffuses into steel at or...

Sure, why waste it? Charcoaling is essentially heating the wood to a temperature that out-gasses all the volatiles. Any wood that fell into the ash layer of a fire will be starved of oxygen and...

I have worked both with good effect. The coal can make some nasty smoke, but up where you live there are no neighbors to upset and the coal is a more concentrated form of BTU. Once you've "coked"...

Become an understudy to Jason Bourne? One way mission to Mars?

Jimmy, I considered that doctrine far longer than it took to write my response. The hardest part was deciding if I should go to hospital and claim chest pain or surrender to the witness protection...

We have a on-the-one-hand versus the other disparity. Bruno has opined that forging causes carbon loss and Mainaman allows that the smith can adjust the carbon content. Both are right and Mainaman...