I previously described the preparation of molds for creating castings from molten iron. On an early day in August (coincidentally my birthday), we returned to Franconia to watch the iron smelters and artists process the raw metal through a furnace and pour it into our molds.
There were two furnaces, one that could generate 150 lbs of molten iron in one batch, and another that could do considerably more. The small one was dedicated to our community mold pour, ours were just two out of three hundred or more waiting their turn to receive a dose of liquid iron.
The pictures below show some of the activity on the iron pour day. The final pictures show our castings, processed, rust converted, enamel painted, Krylon coated, and mounted on an address panel (formerly a dedicated AC port). It seems a fitting place for the discarded radiators from This Odd House to leave their mark.
