[TheForge] Gas Forge Plans - a question

[Jerry Frost]

I'm not sure I understand random tangent.

Not having experimented I don't have any specific parameters except to say 
the flame should impact the floor at a shallow but not parallel angle. If it 
were tangential to the roof I'd aim the burner tube upwards a bit to avoid 
the chimney effect so the flame impacted near the top of the curve. Again it 
would be a shallow angle.

The drawings were of large industrial scale furnaces and the vortices were 
being generated to produce an air/flame dam in the openings. There weren't a 
lot of details about angle, size, etc.

I think scaling it down to our size will work fine. A vortex is usually very 
stable and capable of some impressive things. A strong vortex is what makes 
modern domestic boilers such compact units instead of the 6'+ things they 
were a couple decades ago.

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenny O" <PHAT at cavenet.com>


> Jerry Frost wrote:
>
>> ..... This configuration places the burner (in a single burner furnace) 
>> about 1/3 of the chamber length from the opening. It is angled to produce 
>> a strong vortex, _almost tangential to the floor or roof (not sides)_. It 
>> is also angled inwards from the door (guessing from undimensioned patent 
>> drawings) around 15-20*(max).
>
>
> Would the tangent be random, or have parameters? I understand you haven't 
> experimented with it . Just thought I would ask.
> Kenny O
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