[TheForge] Forge in Ireland (Was: Steel Storage)

[Mike Spencer]

> Folks has anyone got any plans for building a brick chimney forge? In
> particular the air plumbing and fire pot layout.

No plans but a suggestion: make it side draft.  Then you don't need a
firepot, just a stone or brick bed a bit below the level of the
horizontal air inlet.  Pic here:

    http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/tuyere.html

that may give some guidance in building or scavenging the metal part.
If you can't find a place where you can go and look at such a side
draft setup, I could probably manage to draw a (possibly inaccurate)
diagram from memory of how it works.

> ...I live in Northern Ireland cost of shipping is very high so I
> really need a supplier in the Island of Ireland North or South so I
> can drive to collect.

Well dang!  My wood-burning kitchen range was made in Ireland.  It's
taken almost a year to get a new grate for it into the pipeline and
it's going to cost an arm and a leg when it gets here.  So you might
take a run down to Waterford and see if they're up for casting a
firepot, side-draft nozzle and water jacket or whatever other cast iron
things you may decide you need.

BTW, will you be using coal or breeze -- pea coke?

- Mike

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Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~. 
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