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[megabusa]

I left them to dry for a few weeks before cooking but I think they were fairly dry to start with.

I'll tell you what - you don't get much from them. I started out with a large biscuit tin full of charred cones & by the time I had crushed it up there was only a fraction left !!

They are easy to cook though, due to the large surface area : volume ratio.

Made some Slow Gold with it today for 20mm pumped stars for my rocket headers.

[Pyro Harold]

This is a good explantion on making charcoal:

This is the medieval method- pretty amazing the effort needed to be put in:

And this is a big pot of charcoal being prepared:

[whoof]

This is the medieval method- pretty amazing the effort needed to be put in: http://www.youtube.c...h?v=Z0HW4qk8dv4

Warning , That link just trashed my HD.

If others have already sucessfully used that link then please ignore.

[Deano 1]

This is me making charcoal..

[megabusa]

I would be interested to hear how cone charcoal performs.

Im not impressed with the pine cone charcoal. It doesn't burn properly with the ratios I normally use.

I made a large ish batch of Slow Gold with it & it was a disaster. I'm thinking I could use these stars as fireproof brickettes, it was so bad !!

Wasted the Ti sponge I had left

I might chuck them in the mill to break up to try to filter out & salvage some Ti, I'm sure it will be safe it won't even burn with the blowlamp !

[starseeker]

Im not impressed with the pine cone charcoal. It doesn't burn properly with the ratios I normally use.

I made a large ish batch of Slow Gold with it & it was a disaster. I'm thinking I could use these stars as fireproof brickettes, it was so bad !!

Wasted the Ti sponge I had left

I might chuck them in the mill to break up to try to filter out & salvage some Ti, I'm sure it will be safe it won't even burn with the blowlamp !

Bugger!

[megabusa]

Bugger!

That's what I thought when I'd wasted the Ti sponge !!