[TheForge] A blown, fuel-injected forge

[Jerry Frost]

We had a fuel oil burning forge in high school but it didn't get run that 
often so I have no idea how long the nozzles lasted. They were refractory 
though so maybe had a decent life span. maybe short life span was why the 
shop teacher(s) were never very enthused about firing it up. Maybe it was 
the noise, it was pretty loud.

I kind of like the sound of SfabFob though. It has a cadence don't you 
think?

In the early days of theforge list there was an Aussie or maybe Kiwi who 
made and used oil burners for forging. They weren't very similar to a 
furnace burner though. They were kind of a cross between a gun burner and 
pot burner and the forges were double chambered. There was a lower chamber 
and the work went into an upper chamber. He talked about a side by side 
double chambered forge he used but didn't send pics of that set up.

I don't recall specifics as this was sometime around 93-94 when he was 
posting. As I recall his forges looked superficially similar to Don Fogg's 
knife forges; Vertical cylinders with most of the combustion taking place 
low in the column, in other words.

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


> Jerry,
> This nozzle problem is quite similar to the Search For A Blue Flame Oil 
> Burner (capitalized because of the grail hunt fervor it ignites in some 
> minds :). The SFABFOB thread appears about every six months on 
> Castinghobby, and about every six months I'm forced to point out that "the 
> grail" has already been found--wanting. Blue flame oil burners were first 
> invented in the forties, and are used every day in industry. Their problem 
> is that the burner nozzle has to be considered as a consumable...
>
> Which leads us right back to your own statement "...too
> much heat on the burner itself." I can only hope better than to see 
> another endless burner merry-go-round here.
> Mikey
>