[TheForge] Forge firepot.

[schade at acegroup.cc]

I haven't seen the plans but if I was making a firepot for a coal forge 
I would make the air inlet higher that the lowest point of the pot so 
that clinker wouldn't block the flow of air. Clinker breakers *fix* a 
problem that doesn't have to be there.

Bob
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On Jun 28, 2006, at 10:54 PM, Fred Zickrick wrote:

> I'm using an old tractor rim that I found in a junk pile (nostalgia??) 
> on our farm as the container for my "portable forge".  It's about 20" 
> inside diameter.
>
> I've already used Bob Patrick's plans for the all-steel firebox to 
> build a firepot modified for the constraints of my rim.  It's 8x7 at 
> the top sloping down to 5x5 at the bottom, is 3.75 deep and is made of 
> 3/8ths mild steel.
>
> I have an old castiron tuyere that has an inside diameter of just 
> under 4".  I was going to make a grate at the bottom to fit over the 
> tuyere out of the 3/8ths plate with slots cut in it.  I'd planned to 
> put a fair amount of opening in the grate.
>
> I felt pretty good about the dimensions until I read some info at 
> Lytton Creek and now I feel I may have made the box and grate too big. 
>    Also, LC seems to imply that I should have made the whole thing out 
> of at least 1/2" plate.
>
> What do y'all think of the dimensions?  This is not supposed to be my 
> only forge just something to get started with and use at hammer-ins 
> but y'all know how that goes!
>
> Thank you,
> Fred Zickrick, fredz72 at cableone.net
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