[TheForge] Updated on Mike Porter

[John Husvar]

On Mar 10, 2006, at 9:59 PM, Mike Porter wrote:

> 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.

Yep. Part of the resistance might be not seeing any need to change a  
successful design. Part may be the standard Why-bother-it-works-OK- 
for-now-and-I-have-money-jobs-to-do. :)

I just kind of fell into the idea because I didn't have a set of  
number drills at the time, so I looked for something I could use to  
get an opening smaller than 1/16". That made way too rich a mixture  
for my forge. It was a quick, cheap (did I mention I'm part Scot on  
my mother's side?:) fix. From there, further adjustment is easy with  
an air choke plate and varying input pressure.

I like to play around with things and experiment all along the way  
when building something. The forge was a lot of fun. Next magical  
trick will be a chip forge. Funny, I'd been wondering about it for a  
quasi-period demo and event forge when the URL to the English chip  
forges was posted.

I never seem to have the good ideas first! <sigh> :)