[TheForge] burner question

[Larry and Pat Brown]

Maybe the orifice is getting dirty and you need to have more pressure to 
get the correct gas flow? The dust bunnies from marshals were growing up?
Larry Brown

At 08:55 PM 12/1/2003 -0800, you wrote:


>Jerry Frost wrote:
>
> > Anyway, to make a linear inducer work well enough for a decent forge burner
> > without an intake bell (it should really be a trumpet flare but bell
> > reducers work well enough) it requires as Tom stated a small jet and high
> > gas pressure.
>
>         Well this is what was so odd about our burners... or at least
>         mine, anyway.  It would maintain a good flame from down to 1psi
>         and would support same up to 80 or 100 psi (haven't used that
>         forge in two years... don't quite recall the max PSIG.)
>
>         When it went "funny" it would still go to max pressure, but
>         minimum rose to about 3psi.  Still good, but I've been a bit
>         perplexed as to why.
>
>         -Andy
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