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(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

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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
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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,