[TheForge] Updated on Mike Porter

[Jerry Frost]

Hey john. I remember your forge on Dave's site. This is his current URL. I 
didn't see your forge but didn't take much time looking around.

http://home.flash.net/~dwwilson/

Yeah, I started using mig tips as a way to quickly change jet diameter when 
I was first playing with burners. It worked so well I never stopped. That 
was about the same time Ron Reil started playing with burners. I remember 
the mig tips in the Aussies but I'd stopped messing with linears by then.

I think it's a proven design thing Mike. A lot of people are happy with what 
works for them. "If it ain't broke don't fix it" is about as blacksmith a 
saying as exists. It's okay, goes with my philosophy about "traditional". 
Pick the period you like and enjoy. <grin>

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.

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From: "Mike Porter" <michael.a.porter at comcast.net>


> John,
> Yes, apparently Frosty did too. Here's the weird part; I wrote up an 
> account of how to easily change out the hole in the side pipe for a MIG 
> tip and up the performance on old fashioned Aussi burners six years ago. 
> It's been on the Ron Reil site all this time, but there seems to be an 
> incredible amount of resistance to simple fixes--go figure!
> Mike P.
>

> From: "John Husvar" <jhusvar at sbcglobal.net>
>
>
>>
>> On Mar 9, 2006, at 9:55 AM, Mike Porter wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Todd, and thanks to all the rest of you too.
>>> Mike
>>
>> Glad to hear you're doing well, Mike. I did the angiogram thing a few 
>> years ago and got a stent for my trouble. :)
>>
>> Glad it's evidently _not_ your heart. Other things might be easier to 
>> handle.
>>
>> BTW: I used MIG tips on the gas forge I built about mumble-mumble  years 
>> ago. You're right, they're a good way to inject gas and easy to 
>> experiment with. I used an .045 and got good results. Getting a  welding 
>> heat was no problem at all. My write up on it used to be on  D.W. 
>> Wilson's site. I haven't looked at his site in a long while, but  it 
>> might still be there. Now if I could only remember the URL! :)
>>
>> Best,
>> John