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Display of fire and molten iron on the Greenway moved to Sunday
By adamg on Fri, 10/20/2023 - 9:05pm
The planned pouring of 3,000-degree molten iron at Dewey Square across from South Station has been moved from Saturday to Sunday since, of course, it's supposed to rain buckets tomorrow.
MassArt's Iron Corps will unleash the molten metal at 5 p.m. to commemorate both the people who have performed with the Corps since its inception 16 years ago and the 150th anniversary of the nation's only publicly funded stand-alone college of art and design. The pouring will mean:
Throwing sparks into the night sky as a commemorative wall is constructed. Simultaneously, students and alumni will work together pouring structural wedges. The performance will enthrall spectators as they witness barriers burn away, and doorways reveal themselves through the ashes. This installation is temporary, and will be cleared from the site after the performance.
Starting at 1, visitors - children included - will be able to carve their own designs into pre-formed blocks of resin-bonded sand. Once all the available blocks have been given out and the carving is done, artists will melt aluminum up to 1,200 degrees, then pour that into the blocks, to create aluminum shapes in the form of the carvings.
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kwenching
I guess they didn't like the idea of oxidation and bad temper.
This sounds exciting and fun!
This sounds exciting and fun!
All good fun until you have
All good fun until you have some molten aluminum in your lap.
Don't try this at home
Wow. What a catastrophic imagination you have!
If they did it in the rain...
Apart from the "no fun standing around in the rain" aspect, an acquaintance who used to work in a copper smelting operation told me once what happens when a chain breaks and a bucket drops. The bucket falls, a whole crapton of molten copper spills out, there's always at least some water on the floor, it instantly vaporizes...and molten copper goes flying everywhere. Obviously it's not the sort of thing that happened often, but the circumstances were such that they had drills for it. He said he saw it himself once, or rather saw the bucket starting to drop and dove for safety.