Forum Game: Ban the Person Above You

Banned for being mean about people with less posts than yourself.

 

Banned for not using "fewer".
(immediately un-watching the thread to prevent alerts galore from a forum game)

 

Banned for not thinking about me quoting you.

 

Banned for potentially confusing me.

 

Banned (again) for also not thinking about people liking your post. :p

 

Banned for a completely irrational reason.

 

Banned for thinking that Hella was being rational in the first place. ;)

 

Banned, 'cos yo wrong, yo. :p

(What did you think was missing?)

 

Banned because you're still wrong.

(Both skullcap and gloves only lead to worse burns in the end. Cap leads to stuff getting trapped between the cap and behind your ears; gloves [no matter how long you make them--even ones that are full arm] lead to hot junk getting down inside the glove and being held against your skin while you hop about like a mad man trying to pull the damn thing off. Plus, caps can lead to a poorer seal with your earmuffs, leading to greater likelihood of deafness; and gloves don't allow you to tell whether a piece you're working on is hot using radiant heat, meaning you can grab something that's hot and only notice when it's started to burn you--as opposed to feeling the heat on your skin before you even touch it, which then allows you to not touch it! :D)

 

Banned because (however familiar you are with metalworking) you're clearly not up on your blacksmithing. :p

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Heh, clearly we've encountered differing designs of caps; anything that I've seen just provides places for small burny things to sit and burn away to their heart's content. Tbh, I'd rather put my faith in the Leidenfrost effect and suffer the odd, minute burn (to which I can readily apply some chilled aloe vera gel) than risk having a hot particle getting trapped somewhere and burning through to the dermis before you can shake it loose.

Similarly with gloves, even using a cinch to hold the tops of your gloves shut still provides a catching/resting place for hot chaff or the like to sit, burn, and make you do the unhappy OWWWWWWIT'SHOOOOTTTTTT dance. :( Additionally, and I'm sorry to gainsay you, but until they start making gloves out of wonderflonium there is no glove [that's not an unwieldy oven mitt] that won't bleed enough heat during the course of a strike to force you to stop mid-work and either quench early or drop your piece to the floor. That 350°C piece may look cold but it really really isn't (and 350°C not the worst of it as anything under 427°C doesn't give off photons--and hence should be considered hot until you've either quenched it or gauged it for radiant heat with an open palm).

The clear [i.e. non-tinted] glasses are a necessity with smithing as reading the colour temperature of your stock/piece as it's heating up is essential to good, clean work; trying to wrought with the wrong temperature for the piece at hand inevitably leads to spoiled work--anyone who tells you otherwise is either mistaken, lying, or is only a hobbyist who can afford to waste the time to do a piece over if it goes south. Yes, if you're using an electric or oxy welder a faceshield is a necessity, but not when you're welding using a coke fire.

I can't speak much in terms of personal experience, as I've only spent a year thus far learning the trade; but I've forged under a number of professional smiths (and even an Australian guild master) and they all, all work without caps, gloves, or tinted glasses/masks.
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Also, 1979 Cadillac? Very nice.