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You should know mineral chemistry

>>2339911
What other chemistry might you or anon suggest as well?

I've only taken Intro Chem and Chem 1 and I was thinking about going over the MIT Solid State Chemistry. How applicable would that be to forge activities?

comeon /sci/ there HAS TO BE a seasoned chemist around, help me believe in you again!

There is a wonderful site that has all the information you would ever need. Wikipedia.

You don't need a seasoned chemist.

You need to know what a refractory is and why it's very important that it remains dry.

Old-timey foundries weren't run by chemists. They were run by trial and error.

Are you just planning to melt metal into ingots or do you want to cast useful shapes? If the latter I hope you took shop in high school.

you need a microwave oven and some other stuff

http://home.c2i.net/metaphor/mvpage.html

And for a more traditional feel or for work on a larger scale;

http://www.backyardmetalcasting.com/

Starts small. Really small. Practice. Keep a bucket of sand handy for when you set fire to things. Water on molten metal is not a good idea.

this is a start.

no particular education required, most such such projects are possible without understanding at all why the process works.

>>2340755
That website is awesome. Too bad you have to pay for even the most basic stuff.

Pay for what now? You mean the kit to build this stuff or are you expecting to buy the books?
Because if you can't put a small backyard foundry together based on all the available photos and instructions on that site you probably shouldn't be working with molten metal.

You need to google "David Gingery Metalworking Shop from Scrap" because the first book is on how to build a cheap forge. The rest of the books are how to build precision machines with one.

>>2339892

I don't know if you're trolling or not OP, but it's not economically feasible for you to do with your current..um current. You can't do it on the scale that's possible with household current, even if you were doing copper.
You need to cheap source of energy. I doubt you have one.

>>2340870
Yeah, if I were OP I would learn about the commodities futures market, and figure out what the best strategy is to take advantage of the decreasing supply.

>>2339892
http://www.hplusmagazine.com/articles/forever-young/manhattan-beach-project-end-aging-2029
http://www.sens.org/sens-research/research-themes

>>2340870

Who said anything about electricity?

You can melt most metals with nothing but charcoal & an air blast. Waste oil and a big forge will melt anything, including 3000 degree refractory linings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._Gingery

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>>2340586
that is the most lazy, asinine, generic comment ever. Get the fuck off /sci/!

I hope one day in the near future that everytime when you visit wikipedia it tells you to "GOOGLE MOTHER FUCKER!"

>>2341056
that's you typical wtf comment that comes through here on /sci/. Typically they come in and try to discourage the DIY and any thread that promotes the least bit of imagination due to their large hardon for the following..
a) economics
b) biotechnology
c) particle physics
d) nasa

and of course if you are an engineer not related to any of the aforementioned topics then you by all means are gay...

>>2339892

OP you are brilliant.

I too will construct a forge.

Perhaps we could be forge buddies.

>>2341835
no more forges..
fucking build the bakery poser

>>2341835
>>2339892
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0_nuvPKIi8

>>2340923
Great, then we can all die from starvation and overpopulation. And STD's as we all somehow grow sterile and stop caring about protection.

Also, Reganomics.

>>2341854
nice!

hey OP. You MUST know only one thing, the bread and butter of all this shit. and that is this picture. Print it out, sleep with it, make love with it and so on. Everything else is secondary