[TheForge] Gas Forge Recommendation

[Roy Wilson]

======= On 2005-07-14, at 08:02:09 Keith Holmes wrote: =======

>The fuel cost is something to consider but your health is another. This
>is why I started this thread because I would like to blacksmith more
>than every now and then but the coal smoke just kills my sinuses. So I
>am looking for something cleaner and efficient. 

	Vent your chimney as well as your shop.  I prefer coal, habit more than anything else, I *know* what the fire is doing to the steel, even when I can't see the metal.   Even a 4" muffin fan a few feet up the chimney pipe will vastly reduce smoke blowback & clouding around the fire itself.

	Unseasoned (green) poplar chunks work at least as well as coal without the smoke.  You get clouds of steam instead...<G>

"Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris." - Xanthippos

Roy Wilson - rwilson9 at twcny.rr.com
2005-07-14