Subject: Re: Blacksmith Shop Design - RUSTY NAILS

From: "Bruce M. Freeman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 12:24:55 -0500

I have yet to see the "secret" here of hundred-year-old nails made by our
ancestors.  Why were these things worth burning the house down for, when you
moved?   

They were wrought iron - not steel.  Steel rusts through.  From what I read,
wrought iron does not.

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From: Page Thomas <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 15:27:52 -0600 (CST)

Nails were very vary scarce, so they burned the house/cabin down and took 
the nails with them to use in building their new house/cabin.

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