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

[Ralph Sproul]

Dave S, I am resending this as the attachment I sent along to you and
theforge made this bounce back from theforge. Here it is without the
attachment - if some folks got it twice, my appologies.

I feel this corrugated or folded method of insulating a forge ceiling could
be a really good one - and worth trying.

Ralph

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ralph Sproul" <brhlbsmt at mcttelecom.com>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Cc: "DaveS" <dschw at rocketmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Re: reducing fuel costs by improving forge
efficiency


>         Hey Dave, Thanks for the idea.  You and Larry Zoeller must be on
> pretty much the same wavelength..........  the e-mail I got just prior to
> this one - has the same folded Kaowool on SS rods as a suggestion to make
up
> a flat roof system in a furnace.  Larry said he'd gotten this idea from
some
> commercial furnace makers, and this sure seems like a good idea to me.
>         I think this is really ingenious to save a furnace roof with this
> approach.
>
>         I'd like to take a shot at this, and somehow make my angle iron
> frame be like a quilt rack with that hanging insulation folded to become
> almost like laminated end grain cuts of Kaowool.  The draped insulation
> would keep the rods from direct fire contact and I'll bet they would have
a
> decent lifetime to them that way.
>
>         Taking stainless and applying it to the outside of the frames like
I
> do now.......would seal the insulation from floating, and give the ends
> something to hold up for stock on the edges of the door.
>
> Ralph
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "DaveS" <dschw at rocketmail.com>
> To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 2:26 PM
> Subject: [TheForge] Re: reducing fuel costs by improving forge efficiency
>
>
> > 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.