[TheForge] Gas Forge Plans

Andrew Vida osan at netlabs.net
Tue Jan 3 15:53:37 EST 2006


Soon enough for you.

You gwyne be around Thursday?  I'll be at Marshall's.

Bruce Freeman wrote:
> Hey Andy - when do classes start again - - already???
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>>>>osan at netlabs.net 1/3/2006 10:28:43 AM >>>
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> Bruce Freeman wrote:
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>>I really like your design...
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> 	Smoochy smoochy...  jeez Bruce, have some dignity.
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>>One concern it that you don't seem to have supported the brick at
> 
>  > the floor of the forge on anything but the kaowool.  I'd suggest
>  > cutting at least four holes through the blanket under the brick,
>  > and using something there (pieces of firebrick or castable refractory)
>  > to support the weight of the brick and any steel on top of it.
>  >(I don't KNOW that this matters, but I strongly suspect it does.)
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> 	Good point.  I saw this but didn't really take notice.  Where this will 
> come in handy is in helping protect the integrity of the linings such as 
> ITC-100, Satanite, Plistix (BTW, I still have that tub of Plistix you 
> sent me over a year ago.  Never got to use it due to circumstances, but 
> have plans for it one day soon after June 17).  These coatings are not 
> that tough to begin with.  Having work in and out, causing the loose 
> floor to flex the blanket probably won't do the coating any favors.  In 
> addition, it may serve to liberate fiber from the blanket.  I would not 
> want to be breathing too much of that stuff.  Frim what I've read, 
> silicosis is not a pleasant way to go.
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>>If so, I apologize.
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> 	You have SO much more to be sorry about.
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> 	Wa wa wa...
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> 	=-Andy
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