[TheForge] re:burner question

Wed Dec 3 07:00:01 2003

Good point, Tom. I was focused on the angle rather than where the flame 
ended up.

Steve

[email protected] wrote:
>>From: Steve Smith <[email protected]>
>>I used to have a 12"d x 18" forge--two
>>burners was plenty. I used to point them tangent to the internal wall
>>insulation (that swirl effect), but I find pointing them at the floor
>>works just as well. I can't see pointing them up having any benefit.
> 
> 
> Dear Steve,
> 
> The huge benefit from pointing any burners at the ceiling of any furnace is
> to minimize blowing oxygen-rich gases directly at the surface of the
> material being heated, thereby minimizing scale. The flame heats the
> ceiling, then the ceiling heats the work via radiation, and you have much
> less scale. 
> 
> Tom Troszak
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