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

[Michael Horgan]

Try here,,, http://home.att.net/~purduejacksonville/grill.html , and 
here... http://www.ambrosiasw.com/Ambrosia_Times/September_95/2.5HowTo.html

At 08:19 PM 7/23/2004, you wrote:

>Andy quoth:
>
> > Speaking of blacksmiths and BBQs, was it BAMA that lit off
> > a couple hundred pounds of charcoal to full red heat in but
> > a few seconds using several gallons of liquid O2?  The photos
> > were way cool.  This was perhaps 7 to 10 years ago.
>
>Did some blacksmith do that?  There was a prof at Purdue who posted
>lotsa photos.  Sadly, the URL now returns:
>
>           The people in charge have requested this web site
>           be removed. 2/6/2003 --ghg
>
>The photos of reducing a cheap barbecue to a smoldering puddle of slag
>and ash in less than 60 seconds with a bucket of lox were on line for
>some considerable time before the local fire marshal heard about this
>annual entertainment at an academic soiree. And there was a spell
>early on when Purdue's server bogged down under the demand for the
>pics.
>
>Inadquate substitutes remain online:
>
>    The Fulminating Grape:             http://www.pmichaud.com/grape/
>
>    Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches:  http://www.pmichaud.com/toast/
>
>- Mike
>
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