[TheForge] Wombat is back from the forest!

[Stephen Viola]

G'day Frosty!

Yep, I made it out of the forrest with little more than a bumkin
accent to my Finnish language ;o) nice people just a little
sloooooooooooooow if you know what I mean.

The liquid used to fuel the brick forge is apparently the same oil
used to heat the Finnish houses. It kind of smells like diesel and as
I have lived in Finland for close to 15 years I can't for the life of
me think of what this oil is called in English.
There is some pressure on the oil coming out of the nossle and if I
worked it out properly there seems to be some compressed air as well.
When fiddling with the 5 different levers and taps to adjust the flame
every morning, I discovered that I could achieve quite a hot flame
with less oil and more compressed air. I know I'm explaining this as a
complete novice but all my training has been using "kivihiili" (stone
coal??) in my forge. This oil / brick forge was a new experience for
me as were the spring hammers. My complete repair on one of the
hammers has now given me good insight the the workings of them.. but
this oil system still has me baffled.

A bit of an arse about way of explaining it but I think you'll grasp
what I mean.

OH I should say the best thing about this summer job was the over
time!! I managed to strike up a deal with the boss man.. 29 hours of
overtime and I earned a 100 kg anvil in prime condition, a couple of
hammer heads, a few pairs of tongs and a bucket load of rivets of
various sizes. Not a bad deal for the equivalent of € 330 !!!!

Stephen



On 18/08/06, Jerry Frost <frosty at customcpu.com> wrote:
> Good to hear from you again Stephen, glad to kow you
> made it out of the woods alright. <grin>
>
> The pics made it fine. How is the brick forge fired?
>
> Frosty
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> it ain't real.
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> From: "Stephen Viola" <stephen.viola at gmail.com>
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>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Sorry it's been more quiet than usual from me.. I`ve
> > had a summer job
> > for the past 10 weeks as a blacksmith up in the
> > sticks somewhere. I
> > have attached some pics of my workshop including 2
> > spring hammers and
> > the forge I rebricked. I have plenty of other pics
> > but I just want to
> > see if this works well or not.
> >
> > Log into "the forge" photo site and look for the
> > Wombat Forge albumn
> >
> >
> > Stephen aka Wombat
> >
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