[TheForge] Re: reducing fuel costs by improving forge efficiency

[Ralph E Douglass]

DaveS wrote:
> 
> Having spent many hours trying to attach kaowool to
> the flat roof of a high temperature, gas fired air
> heater, and spending many downtime hours repairing the
> roof and refratory when it a piece of wool fell out
> and the roof burned, we finally came up with the
> following scenerio:  replace the solid roof with
> expanded metal, slightly arch the roof and then pack
> in the wool by folding in in a corregated manner,    "
> /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\//\/\" .
> 
> For your forge, what would happen if you built a
> frame, corregated in the wool and then ran horizontal
> rods from one side of the frame through the middle of
> the kaowool and throught the other side of the frame?
> Then coat the inside of the top with satanite.

You could take a mig welder and put in a bunch of stingers and then just
push the blanket onto them....



Or just use coal....<grin>

Ralph
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