[TheForge] Re: Burner angle

[Mike Spencer]

Frosty> Neither is inherently better than the other and certainly not
Frosty> the "RIGHT" way to do it....once you've made a forge or two
Frosty> you'll discover just how easy it really is and will find
Frosty> yourself either reconfiguring as needed or just making what
Frosty> you need.

I don't have a gas forge, never built one and have only used old
ones from the PRR [1] era.  So this idea is worth what you're paying
for it. :-)

How about you mount the burner(s) on a pivot, as close to the nozzle
as possible, allowing maybe 10 or 15 degrees of movement. Attach that
to some kind of pendulum affair with a period a second or so.  Then
the burner is constructed to aim directly at the floor for localized
heat and can be held there with a latch or pin.  Or the pin can be
removed and the burner can then wash back and forth over a wider area.
A vane in the exhaust draft might work to power the bobbing motion and
make tuning the pendulum less tricky.

Obviously I don't know what I'm talking about.  Or do I? :-)

Jerry> I thought I would curl one end for the attachment pin
Jerry> and then drill the other end for the actual drag bar.

Actually, I don't know what a tiller drag bar is but I agree with
frosty that modern leaf spring is durable and at least reasonably
forgiving.  To make the tiller tine, I torched to rough width, ground,
drew out to taper and thickness, forged a rough edge, straightened,
bent, forged the mount end to size and drilled two holes.

[And yes, "5610" was a typo. I meant "what Frosty said".]


- Mike

[1] Pre Ron Reil. i.e. Jurassic forges.

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