[TheForge] propane forge

[Steve Smith]

Thanks, I don't find my intuition works well with burners.

Jerry Frost wrote:
> It doesn't. Use bushing reducers instead, it's just as easy and cheaper. I'm
> using a 1 1/4" "T" bushed to 1" and am getting very close to a neutral flame
> with a 0.040" mig tip for a jet. It's stable from around 4-50 psi. I was
> going to try a 1 1/2" "T" but this is working well enough I might not mess
> with it anymore. (Uh . . . Yeah, sure. <grin>)

So it sounds like the important thing is to have an air inlet, then a 
reduction in size before the 8" burner tube?

> No. It's a cruciform configuration. Hold it up with the burner tube pointing
> straight down and it makes a cross with the jet supply sticking straight up
> and the intake ports to either side. I chucked the "T" up in the lathe, line
> drilled and tapped it 1/8" pipe for the jet supply.
> 
> Regardless, don't use a "T" if you can get a pipe "cross" fitting.

Now I follow you. Sounds like the thing for me to do is get some pipe 
fittings and go to work.

Steve