fish it should do just fine as a forge base. I figured if it could hold a 250lb 30 gallon tank containing a 2 oz. In short, the aquarium stand had just freed up. Meanwhile the pump has to be kept running, the water cleaned, and the cats shooed away.
Funny that the last of a full tank of fish can die off over the course of a year, and yet take another year for the very last fish to expire. As luck would have it, the last Kissing Gourami fish passed on after a prolonged deathwatch.
The aquarium stand itself had actually been in use. You’ve heard of Carbon-14 dating? I was able to judge the age of this particular sink using “1970’s Color Swatch” dating the powder blue puts it somewhere in the mid-to-late 1970s… Apparently the sinks were made of cast iron and not Melamine™ back then. It was clearly made of cast iron and as proof it was clearly unfazed by my tirade of words which I hope my son has learned from the Internet and not from listening to me remodel the bathroom.
I got the idea that this particular bathroom sink might be a good candidate for a fire bowl after I banged my shin with it and then cursed at it. In the age-old formula I needed to supply an air source to a fuel to create enough heat to make iron malleable. The sweltering heat had finally moved on and Giant Tick season was coming to a close (not kidding, they are HUGE here), when I decided to fire up my hacked together blacksmith forge made out of an old bathroom sink and aquarium stand.