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

[Bob Willman]

	WE just built a new forge at the local county museum. It
is a side draft with a firepot from SOFA. I works well and is a
pretty simple project. I can elaborate on how we did it if necessary. 


Bob Willman
Bowling Green, Ohio
The Eagle's Anvil
WB8NQW

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Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 1:36 PM
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Subject: [TheForge] Forge in Ireland (Was: Steel Storage)


> 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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