[TheForge] vent hood

Sat Jan 3 10:43:01 2004

I could not use a regular chimney for a variety of reasons. I vent my 
coal forge into my metal clad shop and turn on a big honkin' squirrel 
cage that vents through the roof. It works quite well.

No chimney, no sparks up the flue to excite the neighbors, the smoke is 
all but invisible due to the amount of dilution with shop air.

Works like a charm.

Mike Graf

Wayne Ackman wrote:

> did you just put in an exhaust fan for the whole shop and find that 
> would worked well enough as a vent.  I don't have any CO problems when I 
> have the doors open, but it's the wrong time of year for that. :-)
> 
> Wayne
> 
> GHS wrote:
> 
>>
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>> Wayne Ackman wrote:
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>>
>>> Does it make any difference if I take it thru the roof and thru the 
>>> wall?
>>>
>>> design suggestions are most welcome.  :-)
>>>
>>
>>
>> Depends much on the quantity of dilution air. When I had a hood close 
>> coupled to my NG forge the pipe got hot enough to have started a fire 
>> if I hadn't figured that out before I fired it up the first time.
>>
>> Where I penetrated the wall I had a triple wall metal heat shield.
>>
>> Now I just vent the shop in general so it is not a problem.
>>
>> Mike Graf
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