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[Forumsdwarf]

Metal items are gathered together in the smelter somewhat like "Prepare Lavish Meal" gathers food items for kitchens.

The job would begin when one of the following became true:
1.  Enough scrap is gathered to make at least 1 full bar
2.  The workshop is badly cluttered (12 individual iron arrows, say)
3.  There is no more scrap to melt
Once the metal gathering phase ends the furnace operator adds however much coal is needed and the melt job begins.

To keep the fuel cost roughly the same as now I think you'd have to charge 1 bar of coal per 1/3 bar of metal, so a typical job would cost 3 bars of coal.  Single arrows and bolts would see a huge reduction in fuel cost this way, bringing the cost in line with other sources of scrap metal.

The purpose of doing this is to first cut back on the fractional bars lingering in smelters and second to make it cost-effective to melt down single-unit metal arrows and bolts.

[Kagus]

Got my vote.  The idea of having only one smelter for fear of spreading out your recycled metal into a useless bunch of fractions bothers me.