Okay, so some background: I've always wanted to make ink. I don't know why, but it's always been one of those "One day I'll do it" things. Well, I finally got around to actually making headway on it. I've got a five-gallon bucket of black walnuts on the way, some ground-up charcoal (well, the remains of bread cooked at 400 F for four hours), and the quill pen (as well as goose, turkey, and other assorted feathers). The problem is, I don't have the rust.
You'd think it'd be easy. I've got steel lying around--spare maille links and whatnot. However, I can't seem to induce it to oxidize. I tried lighting steel wool on fire, to see if that would work (theory being that fire is really just rapid oxidation), but that didn't work out well. Normally I have the opposite problem--things rust at the most inconvenient times. But for some reason, when I WANT rust, I can't make it. If I were at home, I'd just go to my grandfather's woods and dig up as much as I needed (my great- and great-great-grandfathers used the woods as a convenient place to dump old equipment), but in California it's a tad harder to come by....
So I'm asking the science types on this forum: Do any of you know any way to rapidly make fairly decent quantities of rust fairly rapidly, using household items? Preferably in ways that are safe to do around infants--my wife gets a tad upset when I do things like use torches.
You'd think it'd be easy. I've got steel lying around--spare maille links and whatnot. However, I can't seem to induce it to oxidize. I tried lighting steel wool on fire, to see if that would work (theory being that fire is really just rapid oxidation), but that didn't work out well. Normally I have the opposite problem--things rust at the most inconvenient times. But for some reason, when I WANT rust, I can't make it. If I were at home, I'd just go to my grandfather's woods and dig up as much as I needed (my great- and great-great-grandfathers used the woods as a convenient place to dump old equipment), but in California it's a tad harder to come by....
So I'm asking the science types on this forum: Do any of you know any way to rapidly make fairly decent quantities of rust fairly rapidly, using household items? Preferably in ways that are safe to do around infants--my wife gets a tad upset when I do things like use torches.
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