[TheForge] Foundry heat source

[Jerry Smith]

Charles,

I was thinking of doing that also. HF did have a
recall of those burner a year or two ago, something
about a leak. I would take it back, the HF stores that
freqent, have given me a replacement or my money back.

Jerry
--- xlch58 at swbell.net wrote:

> Craig Schaefer wrote:
> > Agreed, you need 'proper' combustion.  I have one
> of the HF burners in 
> > question.  Never have used it as a forge burner,
> but I have made 
> > several of my own forge burners and it isn't
> rocket science.   Couple 
> > of reducing bells and iron pipe and a #59 or so
> drill bit and I have a 
> > couple of burners that can melt steel in a 10x36
> pipe forge.   My 
> > point wasn't to say you were wrong, but to try out
> a $20 weed burner 
> > instead of running out and investing in hundreds
> of dollars worth of 
> > burners before you know what you need. Does my
> forge make efficient 
> > use of propane?  Likely not as the forge is stored
> outside, in the 
> > rain and I have to burn the water out of the
> kaowool before it gets 
> > hot, but it does get hot and that's what it's
> about-- getting started!
> >
> > CraigS
> >
> I bought one of those Harbor Freight weed burners
> years ago for 
> preheating stuff for welding.  About a year after I
> got it, it evidently 
> started leaking around the trigger.  Small leak that
> went unnoticed 
> until one day the tip ignited the leaking gas and
> the whole unit started 
> to burn along with my sleeve.   No injury other than
> missing arm hair, 
> and a little more excitement than I wanted that
> morning.
> 
> Charles
> 
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