[TheForge] Forge firepot.

[Lon Humphrey]

I like that idea

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Subject: Re: [TheForge] Forge firepot.


>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:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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!
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>> Thank you,
>> Fred Zickrick, fredz72 at cableone.net
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