Ingot molds drop bars out of the bottom on their own

Bars no longer get thrown up into the furnace, and F is no longer needed to
collect them. Blocked bars wait in the trough; the short stub stays for the
next firing; F is optional upkeep (clean, chip slag, rake).

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## Uses for stone and sand
- **Glass bricks.**
- Sand melts to molten glass in a fan furnace (peak about 2000°C measured).
- Cast in an Ingot mold, it knocks out as glass bricks, worth $14 each.
- Cast in an Ingot mold, it drops out of the bottom as glass bricks, worth $14 each.
- Glass bricks build glass wall blocks. Glass is too brittle for a bit mold.
- **Stone cutter** (machine, 2×2, $90).
- A saw under a hopper. Every 8 grains of stone rubble become one stone brick, which drops out