[TheForge] Chip Bed Forge

[Michael Horgan]

It's a pilot light, Ralph.

At 03:10 AM 2/17/2006, you wrote:

>Interesting forges,
>Does anyone know what the top piping coming into the firebox would be?  Is
>it a separate burner providing center heating above the three going into the
>lower end of the firepot?
>
>New design to me and just wondered what the unit coming in up front would
>be?.
>
>Ralph
>
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>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.
>
>
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