[TheForge] Gas Forge Plans - a question
Kenny O
PHAT at cavenet.com
Sun Jan 1 19:48:06 EST 2006
Jerry Frost wrote:
> I'm not sure I understand random tangent.
>
> Not having experimented I don't have any specific parameters except to
> say the flame should impact the floor at a shallow but not parallel
> angle. If it were tangential to the roof I'd aim the burner tube
> upwards a bit to avoid the chimney effect so the flame impacted near
> the top of the curve. Again it would be a shallow angle.
>
> The drawings were of large industrial scale furnaces and the vortices
> were being generated to produce an air/flame dam in the openings.
> There weren't a lot of details about angle, size, etc.
>
> I think scaling it down to our size will work fine. A vortex is
> usually very stable and capable of some impressive things. A strong
> vortex is what makes modern domestic boilers such compact units
> instead of the 6'+ things they were a couple decades ago.
>
> Frosty
> -------------------------------
> If it ain't forged
> it ain't real.
> Wrought iron is.
> The FrostWorks
>
> Meadow Lakes, AK.
I was just over thinking things again.
On the scale that I would be dealing, you gave plenty enough information.
Thanks
Kenny O
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