01-02-2022, 02:30 PM
I worked the forge for a blacksmith friend who was replacing iron (not steel) plates on the Turbinia in Newcastle. Heating 1/2 inch iron countersunk rivets up to bright orange, pass them up to him while my brother-in-law was holder-upper and the smith knocked them up. I have never been so hot and sweaty in my life before or since. The worst ones were in the bow which has a really sharp point but fortunately the deck was off at that stage or the gas kiln would have been below!