[TheForge] Re: Bricks- Light vs heavy

[Jeffrey Polaski]

For annealing, I just leave stuff in my propane forge. After I turn it
off it takes quite a while to cool down. By morning everything is still
a little warm to the touch. 

Usually there will be an extra-thick layer of scale on whatever I leave
in there, but I'm not too worried about it. I run the forge a little
rich and get generally get just about no scale at all from the forge. 

I needed it to cool down even slower, I could stuff a couple of extra
heavy bricks in there and heat them up first.

With all the talk about bricks, I was thinking I need to make some brick
tongs for handling hot fire brick. It doesn't happen too often, but
sometimes I need to move around a hot brick. I usually just use the
handle end of whatever tongs I'm holding to get the width needed to pick
up the bricks. Some proper tongs for the job would be nice to have.


Jeff Polaski
Research and Graduate Studies Webmaster
University of California, Irvine
http://www.rgs.uci.edu/
949.824.6363
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[mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Bill Roberts
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 4:45 AM
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Subject: Re: [TheForge] Re: Bricks- Light vs heavy

fwiw,
I've always annealed ferrous...both low and high carbon, in a 5  
gallon bucket of warm sand or lime. Get the material hot and plunge  
it into or bury it in the sand or lime and leave it over night.  
Annealed in the morning.
2 cents,
bill
On Apr 20, 2006, at 1:38 AM, Jerry Frost wrote:

> Before you take what I do as gospel though, I'd like one of the  
> guys here who do a lot of heat treating to jump in.

Bill Roberts
www.CustomDesignMetalArts.com

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