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82 (melting) smelting formerly - learned to smelt (mengecor)NGECOR[[under]] around 1950 from a person from Tegal - in desa tamberginang are 2 other copper-working places - hide bellows had been is use since former times - all pengr. copper hired from among the men in the neighborhood - some workers paid boronga. 350Rp per price - the workers in the copper ind. vare called "sayang" who do shaping and finishing. - those who do smelting and are [paid daily rates called "tukang gembleng" 3 tukang gembleng can work up to 15K of copper a day; 1K x 250Rp] (tidale cocok)[[?]] work 3 or 4 days a week -acc. to Pak Jupri copper not suitable for eating or drinking or food storage vessels because of strong smell -acc. to Pak Jupri competition from aluminum ware because cheaper and more practical, but 83 copper stronger for jewelry acc: to Pak Jupri need a machine processed copper product, cant use serap[[?]] Pak Jupri sells 60 - 70 of his product a month; setors +-20 3 times a month uses about 80 pikuls of teak charcoal a month - he says his greatest head for a polishing machine and polish that won't tarnish (prepent polish lasts only about 10 days) -says profit per dandang +-150 - his house has about 500 Watts of electricity, but doesn't use for his business - further notes on salt: other tools used in salt production one garuk (long bamboo pole), kusut (also for smoothing), pak tepak (to pack down vines[[?]] borders of salt flats?) demonstr. flat of prov. govn. + ha and of central govn 5 ha,