[TheForge] charcoal firepots

Scott Lane [email protected]
Mon Jul 22 22:19:01 2002


>I know that they are the same coal, and when I get done and clean out the
>forge to put it away, I find no clinker in the rivet forge.  I need to
>constantly be messing in the fire in the brake drum forge, as the clinker
>builds up enough to choke the fire.  I believe you may have hit on it with
>the depth of fire thing, as the brake drum forge is a lot smaller and would
>therefore have less reserves of heat.  Never would have thought all this

         Could there be some kind of alloy in the brake drum that is 
causing the coal to clinker up?

Scott