| EVENT | Date | Oct-19 | |||||||
| Description | Icelandic stone block | 2nd use | |||||||
| Goal | slag bowl in place test | ||||||||
| Team | Darrell Markewitz | ||||||||
| James Burton | |||||||||
| Neil Peterson | |||||||||
| photos | Kelly Probyn-Smith | ||||||||
| FURNACE | Type | Norwegian / Icelandic | |||||||
| Material | granite block, clay fill | ||||||||
| Interior | 25 | ||||||||
| Height | 100 | ||||||||
| Stack | 70 | ||||||||
| Base | varies - previous slag bowl retained | ||||||||
| Packing | wood ash | ||||||||
| Tuyere | standard copper | ||||||||
| Diameter | 2 | ||||||||
| Angle | -22.5 | ||||||||
| Proud | 5 ? | ||||||||
| Air System | standard electric blower | ||||||||
| Extraction | bottom via arch | ||||||||
| MATERIALS | Ore | DD 2 (red + 18% scale) | |||||||
| Charcoal | Maple | ||||||||
| CLOCK | ELAPSED | EVENT | AIR | CHARCOAL | ORE | ||||
| actual | UNIT | COUNT | TOTAL | Unit | TOTAL | ||||
| pressure | LpM | bucket | kg | kg | kg | ||||
| psi | 1.92 | ||||||||
| 1000 | start wood splints pre-heat | ||||||||
| 1030 | 30 | gentle air, port open / seal arch | |||||||
| 1050 | 20 | close port | |||||||
| 1131 | T 1:30 | fill with rough charcoal | |||||||
| 1131 | main sequence start | 800 | 2 + | 2 | 3.84 | ||||
| 1120 | start adding graded fuel | ||||||||
| 1131 | 11 | charcoal is hanging up / rough sides | 1 | 3 | 5.76 | ||||
| 1135 | 4 | dropped with probing | 1 | 4 | 7.68 | ||||
| 1148 | 13 | 1 | 5 | 9.60 | |||||
| 1159 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 11.52 | |||||
| 1215 | 16 | 1 | 7 | 13.44 | |||||
| 1216 | air increased | 900 | |||||||
| 1229 | 14 | 1 | 8 | 15.36 | |||||
| 1230 | air increased | 1000 | |||||||
| 1242 | 13 | 1 | 9 | 17.28 | |||||
| 1253 | 11 | first ore charge | 1 | 10 | 19.20 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 1307 | 14 | 1 | 11 | 21.12 | 1 | 2 | |||
| 1317 | 10 | 1 | 12 | 23.04 | 1 | 3 | |||
| 1331 | 14 | 1 | 13 | 24.96 | 1 | 4 | |||
| 1345 | 14 | 1 | 14 | 26.88 | 1.5 | 5.5 | |||
| 1356 | 11 | 1 | 15 | 28.80 | 1.5 | 7 | |||
| 1407 | 11 | 1 | 16 | 30.72 | 1.5 | 8.5 | |||
| 1423 | 16 | 1 | 17 | 32.64 | 2 | 10.5 | |||
| 1433 | 10 | 1 | 18 | 34.56 | 2 | 12.5 | |||
| 1445 | 12 | 1 | 19 | 36.48 | 2 | 14.5 | |||
| 1458 | 13 | 1 | 20 | 38.40 | 2 | 16.5 | |||
| 1510 | 12 | 1 | 21 | 40.32 | 3 | 19.5 | |||
| 1525 | 15 | 1 | 22 | 42.24 | 3 | 22.5 | |||
| 1540 | 15 | large self tap | 1 | 23 | 44.16 | 3 | 25.5 | ||
| 1552 | 12 | 1 | 24 | 46.08 | 0.714 | 26.214 | |||
| 1604 | 12 | 1 | 25 | 48.00 | |||||
| 1605 | start burn down | ||||||||
| 1620 | air reduced | 800 | |||||||
| 1634 | air reduced | 600 | |||||||
| TOTALS | |||||||||
| Charcoal | 48 | kg | |||||||
| Ore | plus 2.8 kg tap slag | 26.2 | kg | ||||||
| Bloom | 6.26 | kg | |||||||
| Gromps | |||||||||
| Yield | 24 | % | |||||||
| Condition | |||||||||
| Quality | spark test estimate | 1035 | |||||||