Hello from Jim Nesfield in Engelhard NC
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This sub forum is for new menbers to announce themselves. Try not to create long threads here -- this is just for you to tell us who you are, and for us to say welcome. There are other forums to actually discuss real tech-science things here, and ask questions on. The idea hopefully is to have enough forums and subforums that nothing sci-tech related will be off-topic, there will be a place for it. If I missed something -- let me know, and I'll fix that.
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James Nesfield
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Hello from Jim Nesfield in Engelhard NC
I live in Eastern North Carolina on the alluvial plains towards Pamlico Sound. I'm working on making aspirin from willows, induction furnace for glass, and pottery. I'm recovering from a past life as a finance person. I plan to move to Brazil eventually to distill Cachaca, grow olives, and grapes.
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Donovan Ready
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- Location: Austin, Texas
Re: Hello from Jim Nesfield in Engelhard NC
Hi, James. Cachaca sounds like it'll take your head off. Have you made any yet?
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Doug Coulter
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Re: Hello from Jim Nesfield in Engelhard NC
Welcome! At this point I'm somewhat of a "recovering finance addict" myself - I'm all in cash, as things just got too crazy vs the reality I see around me. Yes, I know cash is getting worthless fast - but that's not the only asset I manage.
An induction furnace might not work out that well for glass, the "thing" you heat needs to be conductive at the skin. I've heated up pyrex with very strong fields at 2.4 ghz where it's pretty lossy stuff, but a regular induction furnace (in the kHz) would have no effect on it at all. I use a torch I made along with others, propane and either air or oxygen for glass and quartz here. We have a sometimes-working oxygen generator (medical) but just in case, I keep a tank of it as well. I can also go up to around 1000c in my heat treat furnace, which I usually use at lower temps for annealing glass and metals (or the first heat treat hardening of metals). I've done some low temperature clay stuff in there too...it won't quite reach the "cone" level for normal higher temperature clays.
An induction furnace might not work out that well for glass, the "thing" you heat needs to be conductive at the skin. I've heated up pyrex with very strong fields at 2.4 ghz where it's pretty lossy stuff, but a regular induction furnace (in the kHz) would have no effect on it at all. I use a torch I made along with others, propane and either air or oxygen for glass and quartz here. We have a sometimes-working oxygen generator (medical) but just in case, I keep a tank of it as well. I can also go up to around 1000c in my heat treat furnace, which I usually use at lower temps for annealing glass and metals (or the first heat treat hardening of metals). I've done some low temperature clay stuff in there too...it won't quite reach the "cone" level for normal higher temperature clays.
Posting as just me, not as the forum owner. Everything I say is "in my opinion" and YMMV -- which should go for everyone without saying.