[TheForge] Sidearm burners

[Marc Godbout]

Steve, was the mig tip the same hole size as your Reil burner? Same
pressure? The best test would be to put a flow meter in there and keep
that constant. That's more of a true measure of propane BTU into the
forge. Then you're comparing apples to apples when measuring
temperature.

--Marc

On 2/13/07, Steve Smith <sos at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> Then I saw that Larry Zoeller had added a sidearm 'kit' (all you have to
> do is tighten things up). I bought one of these. It came with a tapered
> mig tip for the gas jet, pretty nice setup and for not much more than
> the fittings would have cost me. I recently compared the performance of
> this sidearm burner to a Reil burner. Both are 3/4" body with Larry's
> stainless flares on the end. I measured with a thermocouple, both in the
> same, single burner forge.
>
> The sidearm was almost as good as the Reil burner. Final temp was maybe
> 100 degrees lower. This makes me think that the sidearm is just an easy
> way to put the same burner together, and less impressed with the mig
> tip. Sounds like this isn't correct--what am I doing wrong?
>
> I'm at maybe 300' above sea level, neither burner has a choke. Pictures
> could be done if important to the plot.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
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