[TheForge] Re: Petrogen torch yak

Michael H. Murphy blacksmith at comcast.net
Fri Aug 20 17:06:31 EDT 2004


Fuel injected gasoline forge?  Man, that's such a neat idea it scares me.
With a bit of work, I'd bet it could be done, but trial and error testing on
something like this could cost you your eyebrows, mustache and beard.

Murf

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> 
> I am just sitting here trying to imagine what it would be like
> explaining THAT to the fire marshall. <G>
> 
> Mike Graf
> 
> GHS wrote:
> 
> > I'll see your stupid and raise you one.
> >
> > We have all seen or at least heard of oil fired forges.
> >
> > How about a fuel injected gasoline forge?
> >
> > Mike Graf
> >
> > Dave Bendall wrote:
> >
> >>      I have a stupid question that no one else has asked yet, but I bet
> >> has occured to others on this list. Could you somehow 'slow down' a
> >> Petrogen torch some, and use it as a burner in a gas forge? Or would it
> >> still just cut a hole through the bottom? If some one got this to work,
> >> they'd have fuel available pretty much everywhere. Also, I was
> wondering
> >> if it would still work if you used compressed air in it instead of
> >> Oxygen. That would simplify things.      I'm not interested in this
> >> for myself, I like poking at a coal fire
> >> too much, but I know you gas forge folks are always figuring ways get
> >> your forges tweaked just a leetle bit hotter or cheaper or something.
> >>
> >>      Dave Bendall in Phoenix
> >>
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