[TheForge] Burner angle

[Jerry Frost]

My pleasure Harry.

If you want to use it as a melting furnace too, then 
you have to mount the burner(s) tangentially. The fire 
has to circulate around the crucible or bad things 
happen to the melt.

Frosty
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From: "Harry" <iowaharry at fastmail.net>


> Thanks for the reply, Frosty,
>
>   I had anticipated making a variety of forges. This 
> one may end up
>   doing double duty as melting pot as well. I 
> appreciate the info on
>   why one would choose direct or vortex. I have been 
> sitting on this
>   project for months. I have been dealing with a 
> rather aggressive
>   honey dew list. One item was erecting an above 
> ground pool. Now I
>   have someplace to run to when I get a burn. I'm 
> pretty sure SWMBO
>   won't cotton to me quenching anything in there, (at 
> least not while
>   she is looking <g>).
>
> Back to the shop, Harry
>