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paulc:
If they are useless go ahead and cook them. Money is already spent....
JW_Halverson:
Wow! Did I just see a reply from the elusive Tower? LOL!
Don't give up on it until the pieces are too small to hold! A couple of the best and finest gunflints I have ever had the pleasure to tighten down in the locks of my flintlocks was Texas concrete looking crap. Ugliest gunflints, too! And they were square, with all four sides good enough to draw snap-crackling hot sparks. I have one left and it resides in a Zales diamond engagement ring box on my desk. I only take it out for when I can draw a muzzleloader tag!
Even if you can't get anything out of it, you burn off calories and frustration! Good luck!
Hawkdancer:
Those sound like the kind of gunflints I need! Even have a couple empty ring boxes to keep 'em in! I did manage to score a big bag of good English flints, I'm still work with them. :-M
Hawkdancer
Sasquatch:
--- Quote from: Tower on January 22, 2018, 10:01:02 pm ---If you have a roaster start at 200* for 24 hrs. Then increase it 50* every 5 hours until you get to about 375-400* hold it for about 8-12 hours then unplug it. Let it cool a day. Any large cobble should slick right up & turn to candy. Large cobbles will treat. You just have to take it slowly. I will add if you have any rootbeer don't take it past 350*. It will craze.
Just my opinion.
Tower
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Tower knows how to cook some stone! I saw him turn a piece of concrete into an opal one time.
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