[TheForge] Gas Forge Recommendation

[keporter at comcast.net]

I never recommend that people do things--alone--that scare them when handling equipment, whether heating or otherwise. Fear shuts down the mind, which is especially bad when handling tools. It is better to have a tutor walk you through the process step by step. Journeymen would be as rare as hen's teeth if they had to completely self-teach.
Mike P.
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> Now that I think of it, even when I got all the parts together I was scared 
> to put it together. Not to mention cutting an eliptical hole in the large 
> pipe for the burner to go thru. 
> And then turning it on for the first time. that was scarry. 
> Marc 
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> > 
> > In a message dated 7/10/2005 3:50:30 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, 
> > dann at wctatel.net writes: 
> > 
> > My 20 / 20 hindsight would have me buying a good gas forge back 
> > 20 years ago. I am not a Ron Reil nor a furnace man. For me 
> > trying to build my own "working" gas forge, was a frustrating waste 
> > of time. Best way for me would to be part of a blacksmith 
> > "hammer-in " kind of event where a demonstrator coaches a group 
> > build , so each participant comes home with new "home made " gas 
> forge. 
> > 
> > Dann 
> > 
> > 
> > Exactly so; it surprises me that more groups don't get together and do 
> that 
> > very thing. In the first place, the expensive materials can be purchased 
> for 
> > less when you buy in bulk. In the second place, the forges can be turned 
> out 
> > more easily when several people pool their resources. Some groups have 
> done 
> > just that, but it's not common. 
> > Mike P. 
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