From:
"John VanCamp" <jvcstnwrks@zzzzzzzzzzzzz>
Date:
Sat, 21 May 2005 11:18:26 -0500
Subject:
firestones
----- Original Message -----
From: "daedelus lanthanien" <daedeluslanthanien@----------- >
Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 6:10 AM
Subject: [stone] firestones
Quoted text begins.I propose an experiment, everybody please throw your local
geology to the > fire and post what it does. twice dry, twice
soaked 2 days, thrown to the
eye of a well pitched hardwood fire for 2 or 3 hours.
End of quote.
Not much on experimenting (quit that years ago), but I do have
some experience with the mixing of limestone (and marble,
alabaster, and soapstone) fire, and water. Had my shop and
carving studio in an 1920 vintage lumberyard. The old lumber
sheds made for good carving space. Some kids decided to see how
well that old cypress lumber would burn- Rather well it turns
out. Entire structure went to the ground. Involved in the fire
were about a dozen sculptures in various stone types, and about
15 grand worth of finished architectural carving in our local
limestone banded on pallets ready for shipping. Also all of my
tools and equipment -forklift, overhead hoist etc etc. Sole
surviver was a piece of sculpture in an emerald green soapstone.
Cleaned it up and it was as good as new. Everything else was
destroyed, and most of the stone left no traces of what it had
been just a few hours earlier. One of the firemen told me of
watching the stone just melt when the water would hit it. But
then that is how lime is made -supra heated crushed limestone
hit with a water spray, so basically that is what happened at my
shop. The fire was hot enough to turn the tubular steel
scaffolding I was using for an overhead into a pile of spagetti.
Learned one lesson though, don't get too attached to your
stuff--it can disappear in the blink of an eye.
JVC
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