[TheForge] Ceramic chip forge

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Dave:
My old potter buddy Al Kinkle used to fire with drain oil to cone 12 
regularly till one day he had a rush order and fired off the kiln during 
daylight hours...big mistake.
The pall was ...apalling. The kicked him out of Baywood  Park. After 
that he always started off  the firing with  cheap contaminated diesel ( 
any large boat fuel dock) until he had good color in the kiln before he 
switched over to drain oil and all was well.
The 1/2"alumina ball mill balls sound just like the ideal 
thing...perhaps start with nat gas for the preheat?
Al said he could melt about anything  with drain oil and vacuume 
cleaners.....PF

Dave Brown wrote:

> I wonder what it'd cost to ship you some spikes.  I've got a bunch of 
> them just sitting here looking for some place to go.  How many do you 
> need?
>
> What size/shape are the chips?  Maybe this'll be one of the solutions 
> I'm looking for in my quest to build a forge fired with waste oil.
>
> Dave Brown
> Green Bay, WI 54302
>
> At 14:49 09/12/04, you wrote:
>
>> I use a ceramic chip forge at the school where I teach. It runs on 
>> natural
>> gas from the mains, and does use a blower to get the flame hot enough.
>>
>> At first, you get blue flames burning out through the chips but as 
>> they heat
>> up (15-20 mins) the chips are glowing and the gas gets burnt deep 
>> inside the
>> forge.
>>
>> I think the reason the school bought it - it was before I started - 
>> was the
>> cleanliness. The school's in the middle of London, and burning coke 
>> here's
>> not an option!
>>
>> If anyone wants a little bag of chips to play with I might swap some 
>> for a
>> railroad spike or two...
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Rich.
>>
>>
>> London, UK.
>
>
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