[TheForge] Forge firepot.

[Grover Richardson]

With respect.

The clinker will build up in the bottom of the fire pot until the level of
the clinker then occludes the tuyere.  Like overflowing a bowl with a hole
in the side of it.  The clinker breaker breaks up the clinker before it gets
big enough to be a huge problem.

Still the higher up air inlet will work, if one tears apart the fire often
enough.  Huge pieces of clinker can stick to the firepot and be hard to
remove<G>.

All the Best

>*>-----Original Message-----
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>*>[mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Lon Humphrey
>*>Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 9:23 AM
>*>To: Sponsored by ABANA
>*>Subject: Re: [TheForge] Forge firepot.
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>*>
>*>I like that idea
>*>
>*>----- Original Message ----- 
>*>From: <schade at acegroup.cc>
>*>To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
>*>Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 9:20 AM
>*>Subject: Re: [TheForge] Forge firepot.
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>*>>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
>*>> ___________
>*>> 
>*>> 
>*>> 
>*>> 
>*>> 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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