[meteorite-list] Rusting Nantans

From: David Freeman <dfreeman_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:52:24 2004
Message-ID: <3D6D686D.9020609_at_fascination.com>

You have a Nantan, you wish you did not?
Nantans are special, believe it or not!

Nantans have...personalities divide,
Some we take out for show,
Some we keep in and hide!

The rusters we ditch as they crumble and die,
The solid ones we cherish and ask our selves why.

If only they rusted with fizzling and pop!
but only to ooze with gooey-ness.......glop.




James_TOM Knudson wrote:

>
>
> I have a Nantan. I wish I did not! It is 150 or so grams and is rust
> thru & thru..... Are they all like this? I bought it to try my hand at
> etching. Ya right!
> Thanks, Tom
>
> From: "Waldron Cluett" To: Subject: [meteorite-list] Rusting Nantans
> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 21:30:35 -0500 I read Anne Blacks dilema with
> her Nantan and had a similar experience with a 2 pounder...crumbling
> and oozing and rusting. I soaked the fragments in naval jelly
> ...available at the local hardware store... for about an hour, rinsed
> them off with alcohol and a tooth brush...let them dry overnight ...
> then lightly waxed them an polished with paper towel. They have held
> up well, and the kids who visit our shop are thrilled to get a
> fragment for $2-4 dollars _at_ .50 cents a gram in a round plastic
> container with a card...If they still are leaking, I take the advise
> of another list member and soak the specimen in denatured alcohol for
> a week to eliminate the chemical action and then lightly wax, and
> polish... The smaller fragments are also saved and put in little tubes
> and sold for $2.00 as "Stardust"...the only problem is we have too
> much Nantan stardust... Our motto..."No Nantan will go unsold" 'Hope
> this will encourage some to experiment with their irons... Wally
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Received on Wed 28 Aug 2002 08:18:53 PM PDT