[TheForge] Gas Forge Plans - a question

[Larry Zoeller]

To All,
I have always felt that you really only need to vortex the burner when you
are running a blower driven gas forge and not on a atmospheric forge.  I
feel that because you are pushing the heat through so fast with the blower
that you need some to for the heat to disperse evenly in the forge body. 
You do not have all that much flow with the atmospheric burners, so it
seems to spread more evenly.  The forge also has the flat firebrick bottom,
every forge that I have seen that had a flat bottom and a vortex burner the
flame seamed to hit a flat spot and wants to shot out the front opening
giving another hot spot or uneven heat.  I am sure that there are others
that will disagree with thinking, but these are the findings from my own
personal experience with forges over the years. 

Thanks,
Larry Zoeller
4312 Lahnna Dr.
Louisville, KY 40216
zman59 at earthlink.net
http://www.geocities.com/zoellerforge/


> [Original Message]
> From: Lynn Emrich <theatre_weapons at yahoo.com>
> To: Sponsored by ABANA <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: 12/30/2005 8:05:23 AM
> Subject: RE: [TheForge] Gas Forge Plans - a question
>
> Larry,
> I bookmarked your sites as it is the best and clearest
> plans that I have seen. Thanks for sharing!
> One question. I had always thought the burner should
> come in at an angle to help prevent hot spots. Did I
> miss that part?
> Lynn
>
>
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 6:36 PM
> > To: theforge
> > Subject: [TheForge] Gas Forge Plans
> > To All,
> > I just posted some online plans to build an
> > atmospheric gas forge,that
> > it is a really easy to build forge.  I would really
> > appreciate it if you
> > could look at the plans and tell me what you think. 
> > I would welcome any
> > feedback about them.  The URL is
> >
> http://www.geocities.com/zoellerforge/simplegasforge.html
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Larry Zoeller
> > 4312 Lahnna Dr.
> > Louisville, KY 40216
> > zman59 at earthlink.net
> > http://www.geocities.com/zoellerforge/
>
>
>
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