[TheForge] Ceramic chip forge

Dave Brown quahog at tds.net
Tue Sep 14 01:34:39 EDT 2004


At 00:20 09/14/04, you wrote:
>What Al found was that he spent a lot of time clearing his metering valves 
>using drain oil..lots of bonus stuff comes with it. I

No filtering needed other than a window screen or piece of landscape 
cloth.  Filtering is too much like work and I'm striving to avoid as much 
as is possible.

>He used  a  steel pipe going into a firebox with an oil drip  into the air 
>blast  coming through the pipe. The end of the pipe was red hot where it 
>entered the firebox so the oil was pretty much vaporized by the time it 
>hit the incandescent firebox walls.

No drip, instant heat, no smoke.  All that and free fuel to boot.  Heck, 
the restaurants around here pay to have their old fryer oil picked up.

Dave Brown
Heritage Smithing
Green Bay, WI



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