[TheForge] ranite hardfacing rods

[Dan Brewer]

A weed burner is not going to get your mouse hole up to welding temp. It
will get it to about 500 deg and use a lot of fuel in the process.  If you
make a couple of Porter style burners and encase the horn in some fire brick
so you can get some reflected ir back on the metal you should be able to get
it to temp.  But just sitting it the open air you be heating a lot of air
and not doing what you want to do.  You want to make a small furnace around
the horn.  
Good luck

Dan in Auburn

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Washington, Aubrey O. wrote:
> Thank you, Peter, and all the other great minds who have made suggestions
on how to re-forge the mushroomed horn on my Mouse Hole anvil.  Here's what
I have concluded to try:
>      First, I'll use it awhile just as it is and see how much it bothers
me.
>      Second, if it bothers me too much, I'll try my weed burner as a heat
source while protecting the rest from over heating.
>      Third, if I can't get it to forging temp with the weed burner, I'll
borrow a big rose bud from someone.

	One thing: if the mushroom has cracks and splits in it, you will
have 
to get the tip to welding heat or forging will simply cause the cracks 
to propagate.  One thing you can do is gas weld the cracks shut.  You 
may not even need to use any filler  Just  establish a weld puddle to 
"absorb" the cracked areas, and then reforge.
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