And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Lotta low tech castings from India and environs. When you can run a foundry with staff in loin cloths and flip-flops (or barefoot, I've seen it in person), you can make some pretty complex stuff cheap. If the waterboy falls in the furnace, well, cast iron needs extra carbon anyway.
Probably won't last as long as the originals, and I betcha the firebox will burn through damn quick as supplied, but if you're doing 1850s ironworking, this'll get you hot enough. Just remember: anthracite, not brown coal.
...whoever wrote the description is not a native Engerish speaker.
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I passed on a Corps of Engineers portable smithy couple decades back. interesting.
ReplyDeletea portable field office, too. kinda slick.
oh, and a Norden bombsight, a $70,000 item factory, surplussed at 5 bills.
'ppears to be of Indian manufacture (dot, not feather). Ain't been there-hear the air's sorta nasty. Due in part by these??? '
ReplyDeleteLotta low tech castings from India and environs. When you can run a foundry with staff in loin cloths and flip-flops (or barefoot, I've seen it in person), you can make some pretty complex stuff cheap. If the waterboy falls in the furnace, well, cast iron needs extra carbon anyway.
ReplyDeleteProbably won't last as long as the originals, and I betcha the firebox will burn through damn quick as supplied, but if you're doing 1850s ironworking, this'll get you hot enough. Just remember: anthracite, not brown coal.