[TheForge] Chip Bed Forge

[Darrell]

Just use a gas forge and fabricate a dragon head to enclose it for disguise.
They did have dragons didn't they?

Darrell

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Horgan" <lughaid at earthlink.net>
To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 9:35 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Chip Bed Forge


> Some years ago I made a gas forge for use at the Renaissance  Faire,
> hiding the hot box under some black lava rock. It worked pretty well
> , at least as a nail forge, but you could only heat one end of the
> bar, with no pass through. Last year we used a Whisper Mama, tucked
> away in a faux-brick forge.  Still pretty obviously a gas hotbox.  I
> wanted a coal or charcoal fire, but the Faire site, regulated by the
> Army Corps of Engineers and the local county Fire Inspectors wouldn't
> allow the "Open Fire"
>
> This year we are putting together a ceramic chip forge, basically a
> gas burner feeding the bottom of a pile of heat resistant
> "rocks."  I've been looking at the past postings on the forge, and
> talking off list with Paul Boulay , Rex Price, Frosty and Mike
> Porter, about the ins and outs, advantages and disadvantages of this
> type of forge. Whether it can be made to work with a venturi burner
> or if a blower is needed, what type of media to use  for best heat
> transfer to your steel, and so on. I've also been looking at the
> "expensive" commercial versions available in England as used in the
> school systems,as shown in the graphics page here,  and some slightly
> different types available in Germany,
>   http://www.angele-shop.com/catalog/index.php?cName=gas-forges-gasforges
.
>
> There have been some great ideas pop up, not to mention the usual
> kludges I'm apt to come up with. <GRIN>
>
> Mikie in particular has a great idea for a recuperative forge that
> looks great for a commercial forging station, if perhaps a bit more
> than I was looking to do as a portable forge at the Faire
>
> Seems like there's some interest in this, so I'll be summarizing in
> later messages some of the stuff we've been talking about, as well as
> the results from some experimentation I'm doing.  I've got some
> refractory media due in this weekend so I can try to produce some
> results to share.
>
>
> Michael D. Horgan , lughaid at earthlink.net
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