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Crushing and Grading Charcoal
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Crushing and Grading Charcoal

Lump charcoal comes in pieces from fingertip to fist size. A forge or a smelting furnace burns evenly only on pieces of one size, so the lumps are broken in a sack and sieved into grades. Bloomery smelters break it to about 2.5 cm and sift the fines out through a 1 cm (3/8 inch) mesh; the fines are kept for the furnace base, for insulation or for the garden. Weigh each grade: the split tells you how much of a sack is usable at your size.
Olùbẹ̀rẹ̀
About 1 hour per sack

Ìlànà

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Choose the size

Decide the largest and smallest piece you want. For a bloomery: no larger than 2.5 cm and nothing smaller than 1 cm. A forge fire takes the same range or a little smaller.

Àwọn irinṣẹ́ tí a nílò:

Okùn Ìdíwọ̀nOkùn Ìdíwọ̀n
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Damp the dust

Work outdoors. Mist 2 kg of lump charcoal lightly with water to keep the dust down, and put on a dust mask, gloves and glasses.

Àwọn ohun èlò fún ìgbésẹ̀ yìí:

ÈédúÈédú2 kg
OmiOmi0.1 lítà

Àwọn irinṣẹ́ tí a nílò:

Ìgò ìfọn omiÌgò ìfọn omi
Ìbòjú ErukuÌbòjú Eruku
Ìbọ̀wọ́ Iṣẹ́ AwọÌbọ̀wọ́ Iṣẹ́ Awọ
Gíláàsì ààbòGíláàsì ààbò
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Break it in the sack

Put the charcoal in a burlap sack, fold the top over, lay it on hard ground and strike it with the wooden mallet. Turn the sack and feel the size through the cloth; stop while most pieces are still larger than you want, or it all turns to dust.

Àwọn irinṣẹ́ tí a nílò:

Àpò ọ̀gbọ̀ rẹ́gẹdẹÀpò ọ̀gbọ̀ rẹ́gẹdẹ
Òòlù IgiÒòlù Igi
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Sieve into grades

Sieve the lot through the coarse screen: what stays on it goes back in the sack. Sieve what passed through the 1 cm screen: what stays on top is your crushed charcoal, what falls through is fines.

Àwọn irinṣẹ́ tí a nílò:

Àkójọ ajọ̀ (ihò onípele)Àkójọ ajọ̀ (ihò onípele)
Bàkẹ́tì irinBàkẹ́tì irin
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Weigh the grades

Weigh the crushed charcoal and the fines. Write down the share of each: it is the sack's yield at your size.

Àwọn irinṣẹ́ tí a nílò:

Òǹwọ̀n ìwúwoÒǹwọ̀n ìwúwo
6

Store dry

Let damp charcoal dry in the air, then store each grade in its own lidded metal bin, labelled. Wet charcoal spits and burns cold.

Àwọn irinṣẹ́ tí a nílò:

Garawa irin pẹ̀lú ìbòGarawa irin pẹ̀lú ìbò
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Troubleshooting

Charcoal crushing troubleshooting.

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