[TheForge] A blown, fuel-injected forge

[Mike Porter]

Jerry,
There is also an American made version. However, I doubt that your insurance 
agent would be any happier with it.
Mikey
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Smith" <jerry_smith at anvilsandinkstudios.com>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] A blown, fuel-injected forge


> Isn't this the Chinese gasoline/oxygen torch that
> showed up on the U.S. market a few years ago? My
> insurance coverage won't let me use anything powered
> by gasoline outside of the van and the generator, and
> I can't store my lawn mower and gas powered yard tools
> in my shop. I would like to play with one of these
> torches, but I have seen petrofueled forges and HT
> ovens, they are just a furnace adapted to other uses.
>
> Jerry
>
> --- Phil and Debbie Koontz <pdknz at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I haven't tried this approach, but it wouldn't be
>> hard to do.  Salvage the
>> burner from an oil fired heating system.  It comes
>> with the blower, fuel
>> pump, ignitor, and draft controls.  Seems like a
>> good idea; I really don't
>> know why it hasn't caught on.
>>
>> Phil Koontz
>> Galena Alaska
>>
>> >Gasoline is used in a modern oxy-fuel torch:
>> >http://www.petrogen.com/petrogen_doe.html
>> >However, the predictably hysterical reaction of
>> everyone from your local
>> >fire marshal to your insurance agent would make it
>> a problematic fuel
>> >source for a forge :)
>>
>>
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