[TheForge] New

[aaron craig]

I Have bought Mikes book and built one of the 1/2 inch
burners and I will say it is a world different in
flame control (from candle to jet) than the ones that
came on my commercial forge, Heck if I was not so lazy

I would build a forge that uses them. 
--- Mike Porter <michael.a.porter at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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?
> >
> > Dick
> >
> >
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