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Bronze Making/Melting Furnaces
DanM Offline
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#16
06-28-2008, 08:43 PM
Don't graphite crucibles eventually burn, and where do you get them?
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#17
06-30-2008, 08:12 AM
Eventually, yes, after it has been polluted heavily by use. However, graphite is an allotrope of carbon, like diamond, and thus has a pretty impressive resistance to heat.

It can be bought by most decent casting shops.
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07-03-2008, 11:45 AM
As promished. 2100 B.C. from Aegina.
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