[TheForge] preheating forge blower air

Wed Feb 6 02:29:00 2002

At 12:35 PM 2/5/02, you wrote:

Stephen,Fred;
The Sandia forge design has  intakes that go through the 
exhaust  pipes....ABANANA sells plans...very efficient.
I read that you don't want  exhaust gas getting into the incoming air 
because of carbon monoxide formation.
Perhaps we could get a grant to channel all the hot air from the ,er,seats 
of government to preheat our forges....what a blast!
...umph.....Pete F

>Frederick
>Yes, that has been thought about a lot.  In "plain and ornamental forging" 
>by shwartzkof(sp?), he shows a cut of "The Lindwurm Recuperative Forge" 
>and claims to be able to take 2" round to a forging heat in 2 min.  I 
>attempted to do a patent search with what little info was in that book, 
>but  the cumbersome search machine at the patent office web site and my 
>own ineptness did not find anything.   With all the recuperative 
>appliances the idea is that the hotter the combustion air, the hotter and 
>more efficient the fuel conversion is.
>Dimitry Gerakaris uses hollow soapstone chambers around his flue to 
>preheat frigid New Hampshire air for injection to his fire, not to get a 
>hotter fire, but to keep 0 degree air from cooling the fire 
>unnecessarily.  I want to build a recuperative firepot myself, have 
>several pages of sketches already.  Please keep me in mind when you work 
>yours up.
>
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