http://i377.photobucket.com/albums/o...ng/TUEiron.jpg

A very good friend recently gave me a Farmer-Stedall of London EC1 catalogue
that belonged to her late uncle.

A lovely leather bound book.
Don't know the exact date but believe it is between 1926 and 1934. This from
references within the book.

It has 526 pages and is quite a weighty tome.

I'm familiar with most of the items offered in the catalogue but I have
never heard of a tue iron.

Please see link to scanned page.

My best guess is that this is a nozzle to inject air into a furnace, forge
or brazier.

I have tried my friend google but she is having an off day.

Many thanks,
Nick.

Nick wrote:
http://i377.photobucket.com/albums/o...ng/TUEiron.jpg

A very good friend recently gave me a Farmer-Stedall of London EC1
catalogue that belonged to her late uncle.

A lovely leather bound book.
Don't know the exact date but believe it is between 1926 and 1934.
This from references within the book.

It has 526 pages and is quite a weighty tome.

I'm familiar with most of the items offered in the catalogue but I
have never heard of a tue iron.

Please see link to scanned page.

My best guess is that this is a nozzle to inject air into a furnace,
forge or brazier.

I have tried my friend google but she is having an off day.

Many thanks,
Nick.

Nick,

A few seconds googling found this link:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Tue-iron

"Woodworm" wrote in message
...
Nick wrote:
http://i377.photobucket.com/albums/o...ng/TUEiron.jpg


I'm familiar with most of the items offered in the catalogue but I
have never heard of a tue iron....

My best guess is that this is a nozzle to inject air into a furnace,
forge or brazier.

I have tried my friend google but she is having an off day.


A few seconds googling found this link:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Tue-iron


And posted it here without bothering to actually read the page.

Tim W

Nick wrote:

My best guess is that this is a nozzle to inject air into a furnace, forge
or brazier.

I think you are correct. In a blast furnace the nozzles used to inject
air into the melt are tuyeres, I can recall that from school chemistry.
I suspect the terms have the same derivation.

Wikepedia says "The tuyeres are used to implement a hot blast, which is
used to increase the efficiency of the blast furnace. The hot blast is
directed into the furnace through water-cooled copper nozzles called
tuyeres near the base."

And you can see he http://www.anvils.co.uk/forges.htm

That the tue iron is the nozzle in the forge that the air is blown
through.

In message , Woodworm
writes
Nick wrote:
http://i377.photobucket.com/albums/o...ng/TUEiron.jpg

A very good friend recently gave me a Farmer-Stedall of London EC1
catalogue that belonged to her late uncle.

A lovely leather bound book.
Don't know the exact date but believe it is between 1926 and 1934.
This from references within the book.

It has 526 pages and is quite a weighty tome.

I'm familiar with most of the items offered in the catalogue but I
have never heard of a tue iron.

Please see link to scanned page.

My best guess is that this is a nozzle to inject air into a furnace,
forge or brazier.

I have tried my friend google but she is having an off day.

Many thanks,
Nick.

Nick,

A few seconds googling found this link:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Tue-iron


What a useless site full of adverts and no explanation

Seems its a butt plug for blacksmiths


--
geoff

"Woodworm" wrote in message
...
Tim W wrote:
"Woodworm" wrote in message
...

A few seconds googling found this link:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Tue-iron


And posted it here without bothering to actually read the page.


Did you actually look at the link I gave?

This gave the name Tue Iron and then a further link to:

Tu`yere´......


Right , okay, beg pardon. somewhere on that page it says 'Tue iron... see
Tuyere'

Self explanatory.

Tim W

On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:48:53 -0000, "Nick"
wrote:

http://i377.photobucket.com/albums/o...ng/TUEiron.jpg

A very good friend recently gave me a Farmer-Stedall of London EC1 catalogue
that belonged to her late uncle.

A lovely leather bound book.
Don't know the exact date but believe it is between 1926 and 1934. This from
references within the book.

It has 526 pages and is quite a weighty tome.

I'm familiar with most of the items offered in the catalogue but I have
never heard of a tue iron.

Please see link to scanned page.

My best guess is that this is a nozzle to inject air into a furnace, forge
or brazier.

I have tried my friend google but she is having an off day.

Try "Tuyere"...

HTH
--
Frank Erskine
Sunderland