[TheForge] Re: Forge in Ireland

[Fred Zickrick]

At 12:34 PM 12/27/2005, you wrote:
>From: mspencer at tallships.ca (Mike Spencer)
>Subject: [TheForge] Forge in Ireland  (Was: Steel Storage)
>To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
>
> > 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.
>- Mike

Mike,
         What is the water tank do?  Why isn't there one on a bottom 
draft forge?
Thanks


Thank you,
Fred Zickrick, fredz72 at cableone.net