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[Mike Porter]

Dick,
O.K., I don't like promoting my book, but enough of you have asked that I 
also can't not answer the question, so I will do so in the form of a neutral 
survey:

(1) There are loads of sites on the Net, through blacksmith groups, foundry 
groups, and hot glass groups, where you can find information on how to build 
gas burners. They fall into two main categories: Fan blown, and naturally 
aspirated. There are a very few people interested in compressed air driven 
burners, but I can assure you they are only worth the effort (since no one 
has written a book showing us how) if you want the ability to manipulate 
flame shape in the extreme. Is this a handy thing to do? Only for torch 
work.

(2) Of the recent designs in home built gas burners, almost all of them can 
be found either on Ron Reil's forge site, or referred to from his site--even 
some fan blown burners. You can't find my burners there.

(3) Tube burners, referred to by some as Mikey burners, can be found in the 
book Gas Burners for Forges, Furnaces, & Kilns at Skipjack Press, or 
Amazon.com (it is never on sale at Skipjack so...) You can also ask a local 
smith, if he's already built one, for help.

(4) Hybrid burners, which are referred to on Reil's site, can only be found 
by purchasing one from Rex Price, although plans for a very similar burner 
can be found on an Australian caster's site, which itself can be found by 
looking through casting news groups. I have forgotten his name, but someone 
here may remember it. Come to think of it, his web site is also referred to 
in the casting section of Reil's site, or was anyway.

(5) There are also wasp-waist burners available through ceramic supply 
stores, but they are quite frankly pathetic.

There you are; end of survey. Of course, in my opinion Mikey burners burn 
best, but what mother ever thought her own child was ugly? I have been 
called "you mother" on numerous occasions, and so should qualify as one, 
metaphorically at least :)
Mike P.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dick Nietfeld" <blksmth at charter.net>
To: "'Sponsored by ABANA'" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 4:37 PM
Subject: [TheForge] New


>I missed the postings about Mike's burner.  Is there information available?
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> Dick
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