[TheForge] Gas Forge Recommendation

[Justin Fellenz]

I agree, build your own, it's fun. And it is cheap, too, if you build
your own burners.

I built a forge to use Mankel burners and I can weld up a storm, having
built the thing all wrong, with 2800 degree refractory brick and mortar
in a sheet metal box. I had a specific size and shape I wanted but the
thing weighs a ton and the lining's already falling apart. But I can
weld up a storm in it with the three-burner manifold fed by a 10 dollar
squirrel cage blower and about 5 lb of pressure. 

I bet a mankel forge from mankel would work real well. Nobody I know
has one though, which might be significant. I have used an NC whisper
daddy a fair bit with the ports on the end and I'd be happy to own
one--but they're 600 bucks. 

I'm going to replace the  burn box for my mankel setup in a piece of
pipe for doing damascus and build another with a homebuilt burner setup
for workaday forging, when I have my shop back next year. I've heard
folks building burners for $20 or so. Cheeeeep.

JRF

--- Keith Holmes <keith at rcelectric.org> wrote:

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