Thread 16776281

Why does the Primitive Technology guy have so much trouble, when it comes to creating usable iron out of iron bacteria he fishes out of rivers? Is it bad luck? Bad location?

furnace is too cold

>>16776281 (OP)
he made a knife?
do you mean his tiny yields or how the iron is bound up in slag?
because the iron bacteria is like 0.00001% iron

>>16776301
I'd say he's not getting the sustained temps needed to burn the impurities out of bog ore with that new furnace, you can see he's trying to maximize draft with this kiln but only went up about 10 feet. He wasn't pumping air in at all

>>16776281 (OP)
Sulfur.

>>16776327
yeah sulfur is a really bad contaminant

>>16776335
Almost inevitable with any bio iron sources.

>>16776352
It's common in acidic bottoms where they eat iron and biological stuff break down rocks. Bog ore. Clay found in these areas have high amounts of sulfur and need to be heated for an extended amount of time to remove the sulfur dioxide or it will start robbing oxygen from the hematite and turn it into magnetite which causes the pottery to bulge and fracture when cooled

>>1677628
scale

he need to go bigger

>>16776281 (OP)
There's a reason that commercial iron is iron ore and not iron bacteria. Namely quantity available. If he had some iron rich rocks he would have plenty of iron.

>>16776281 (OP)
>>16776313
What is he burning? Coal was historically used because it burns hot enough but if he isn't using coal because he can't mine it that would make iron / steel very hard to work with.
I built a propane fired furnace with furnace bricks and still struggle to get mild steel hot enough to work let alone refine ore.

>>16776281 (OP)
why do you think there was a whole bronze age where they invented writing, math, fucking chariots for war, shipbuilding and had a complex international trading system to supply the copper and tin to make bronze? iron ore is everywhere but it's really hard to figure out how to get to usuable iron or even steel.

>>16776731
charcoal is as good as coal for heat and purer in carbon content

kawaii

>>16776297
this
he is using basic furnaces that were used to melt bronze not iron
moreover he doesnt have a crucible which means all the iron is scattered on the floor of the furnace

when he make first transister?

>>16776281 (OP)
He just keeps on trying 'till he runs out of cake.

>>16777074
I'm not sure his goal is even to break into the iron age. Looks more like experimenting with the bare minimum.

>>16777471
He's one villager. He has to gather all the resources and he only has a granary, not a Town Center.

>>16777471
seems like one of those "I don't need society, I can do it myself" types, that is slowly figuring it out why he actually needs society

>>16777492
How the fuck did you reach that conclusion?
He wrote a book.

>>16776460
its kinda sad that he doesnt have some more resources around. some good ore or at least some iron sand and he'd have a bunch of tools already instead of doing years of smelting for 50g of tiny iron balls.
another big issue is that he doesn't really have a good way to forge his iron. he cant consolidate his small pieces into a bar, draw it out and fold it a couple of times to make it more uniform and forge out impurities and some of the carbon.
if all you got for that is a anvil stone and hammer and some wooden tongs, you're gonna have a bad time.
he also doesn't have any good source for lime. only thing he ever did was collection massive amounts of thin shelled land snails to make a tiny test brick.
and aussie laws means he cant legally hunt, so he cant make leather.

>>16778543
>its kinda sad that he doesnt have some more resources around. some good ore or at least some iron sand and he'd have a bunch of tools already instead of doing years of smelting for 50g of tiny iron balls
It's sadly realistic.

>>16777492
>you need society hence it’s my right to rape and steal from you

>>16778543
I find it quite interesting, struggling with poor inputs and still making good results.