How did Blacksmiths bend and melt steel??

Question

According to the conspiroucy "fire has never has bent or melted steel." they say the fire in the towers on 9/11 were not hot enough.. but a man with an oven and stove wood could..

Answer 1

the NIST has done a nice computer Sim of the towers. those that spew conspiracy theories about towers have no education in engineering they just like hearing their own voice. Unfortunately, some points made in the Sim (the fiberglass nose and metal shell of the plane tore to shreds while the titanium turbine shafts lanced through the building) cannot be seen at the pentagon. There, the nose punched a hole through 3 thick brick walls while the shafts seemingly disappeared.
I believe the towers were attacked just as described but the pentagon is not so obvious.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Forges required concentrated heat, which usually was achieved by having a very large fire surrounding a very small chamber. The metal that was bent and folded was usually small and thin, rarely more than a half inch in diameter.

The metal would be put into the furnace for minutes (or much longer at lower temperatures) and then shaped in the few minutes after it was taken out before it had a chance to cool.

Try sticking a half-inch steel rod in a campfire (or over your stove) and then try bending it -- that's the analogy for how the metal was heated in the towers when they were on fire.

Answer 4

They did not bend steel, only softer iron. They did this by blowing air across the coals with a bellows to raise the temperature.

Additional comment:
Arab terrorists crashed fuel laden jet airliners into the towers, that's why they collapsed. The U.S. government played NO part in this vicious attack on American soil. The conspiracy theorists are acting in a most repulsive anti-American manner.

Answer 5

Yes but expensive to build. First you need a lined fire pit. Black Hall wood, Bellows, Bellow up a clear flame. Put iron and steel in mold in but above fire. And you have heat to melt steel there. You are looking at $1000 just to build a pit. Fire pot for the steel and iron. Tongs to handle it, Protective cloths, Extra. Not worth the trouble today. Let alone expense. And if you spill it on damp ground,water,or pour in to wet a mold she will explode and kill you. You need to go to school for this! Know. My Grandfather on Moms side was the last hammer and forge man in the county. Seen it done. Not for me to do. And he tryed to teach us the art. Good thing to stay away from. You will get hurt bad doing it or dead.

Answer 6

alright, you asked for it.

first link: the fire generated from the plane hitting the building all went up in a huge fireball in the first 5 seconds. the remaining fire in the surrounding floors only had cubicle wares, paper to maintain it. the steel used in those frames for the WTC center was rated to withstand temperatures over 3000ºC. in order to compromise the integrity of the steel beams, you need to SUSTAIN temperatures of over 3000ºC. there simply was not enough fuel to sustain this type of heat sink.

taken from another post:


The flowing molten metal pouring from the side of the buildings? (Can only be achieved by the use Thermate explosives)

People waving for help unsinged on the "Hit" floors long after the plane hit? (PM , "Heat so intense it melted steel at 3000F"!)

Perfectly severed girders at 45 degree angle with bubbled metal attached ? (Thermate explosives signature!)

Hermetically sealed elevator shafts? (Pop Mechanics conspiracy theory, " Burning fuel flowing down shafts")

Black smoke billowing from towers....obvious sign of an oxygen starved fire. (The fire was all but extinguished) Firemens recording from WT1 states, "We have 2 small fires we can put out with 2 hoselines".

and top it all off with finding passport of Satam Al Suqami, one of the alleged terrorists, at gound zero!!! how amazing is that some piece of paper flew out of his pocket, out of the cockpit, through that 3000ºC+ fire and was found on the ground!!! simply amazing story. they should make a movie out of it one day.

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the NIST 'simulation' link below

Answer 7

A blacksmith would melt steel and bend it it dragon's breath which is much hotter than your standard building fire.

Answer 8

Swordsmiths in Japan and many other places heated steal and pounded it many times in order to make their wares.

Also consider some forts in Scottland and other places were made by superheating rocks and melting them. If we could melt rocks back in the day, we could melt steel.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

Blacksmiths concentrate their heat in a way that makes it happen.