[TheForge] Modified Side-Arm Burner Troubles

[Larry Zoeller]

Mikey,
I apologize for my comment about you trying to get people to buy your book.
I get a little up tight  when people start talking  the Modified Side Arm
burner design.  I have been answering e-mails and phone calls for about 2
years with people that are building the burners and they say that they do
not run right only to find out they decided to make a couple of
modifications on there own that do not work.  They try using standard 1
1/4" tees with a bushing instead of the reducing tee, they use a 1 1/2" x
3/4" x 1 1/2" reducing tee that doesn't have the nice taper to it, it looks
more like a elbow with a branch,  the contact tip is full of Teflon tape or
pipe dope or some times metal shavings, or they use an old POL they got off
of an old gas grill that has orifice in it instead of a full flow POL, and
they made a burner flare out of a pipe coupling.  

BTW. I wish you would send me a copy of the chapter that you sent Philp, I
would like to read it.

Thanks
Larry Zoeller
zman59@earthlink.net



> [Original Message]
> From: <Keporter@aol.com>
> To: <theforge@mailman.qth.net>
> Date: 12/28/2003 3:51:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Modified Side-Arm Burner Troubles
>
>
>  Good afternoon, Larry
> If I hurt your feelings you have my apology, but not my regret since it
gives 
> us an opportunity to talk. In answer your questions:
>   (1) What's wrong with the modified sidearm burner?
>   I did mention that your modified version was better performing than the 
> standard model, and that most burners perform better inside the forge
than in 
> open air. Within the framework of your viewpoint--a perfectly legitimate 
> one--nothing is wrong with it, or with the Riel burner either. They will
do the job 
> and are easily built.
>   The question was once put to a member of Hobbicast as to which he would 
> rather be doing; building fancy equipment or casting. It was a good
question, and 
> it makes a nice lesson--even for some, like me, who would give the
unexpected 
> answer. The equipment itself is my passion.
>
> (2) "Are you trying to get people to buy your book..."
> Authors make about a dime for every dollar a book costs. This book
culminates 
> four years research, and took more than two years to write. If it sells 
> unusually well for the next twenty years I will have made Mcwages out of
it. Either 
> it's an honest book, written from my love of good tooling, or I'm the
dumbest 
> con man to come down the road in some time :-)
> Mikey
> PS If things get tough, I can always buy an old romance comic book and 
> rewrite the story line into a novel. Now there's a logical plan for
making fast 
> money!  
>
>  
>
>
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