[TheForge] A challenge to Harry

[IowaHarry]

Hi Jerry,

    Free is good. A little work to clean it up and make it usable don't 
cost much. It strikes me as the right shape. Nothing fancy, just a 
larger hot spot to make it happen.

Harry

Jerry Frost wrote:
> Harry:
>
> Welltrol or other brand pressure tanks are a good choice if you can 
> get them free. You don't have to worry about former contents except 
> possible corrosion and concrete hard lime deposits. People don't 
> replace them for no reason you know. <grin>
>
> If you have to spend anything on them price SS stove pipe and compare. 
> You can find it in most common diameters and it's easy to make 
> specialty diameters by connecting adding different sizes. For instance 
> if you want an 18" shell put 12" and 6" sections together. Or two 8" 
> sections to make up your 16" dia.
>
> Anyway, there are lots of good alternatives available some a lot worse 
> than a well pressure tank.
>
> Frosty
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> it ain't real.
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> From: "IowaHarry" <iowaharry at fastmail.net>
>
>
>> Hi Mikey,
>>
>>  Sorry about the tardy response. Had one guy get canned and another 
>> one quit so I have been living at work lately. Worked 10 out of the 
>> last 12 days, 48 whole hours off and back for another 8. These 12 
>> hour shifts don't leave much time for anything else. The offer sounds 
>> enticing. I can always use a little more help and info on this 
>> project. I will definetly look for the Castinghobby group. I could 
>> use an opportunity to get out the digicam and document my progress. 
>> I've got my Inswool bought, the ITC 100 is on the way. All I need now 
>> is some time off to actually get some work done. What I am planning 
>> is get this little forge going and move on to using a "Welltrol" 
>> pressure can for a larger forge. A welltrol is a doohickey on a water 
>> well that is a pressure vessel with a rubber bladder inside to assist 
>> in maintaining a constant supply of water. It is about 40" by 16", 
>> just a guesstimate in size. With the bladder removed it is very 
>> similar in construction to a propane tank or freon tank shape wise. 
>> And "Weltrol' is probably a brand name and there is of course some 
>> common term for it that apparently I don't know.  If I didn't have a 
>> job I could have the time to work on all these projects. But of 
>> course then I wouldn't have any money. So, Off to work I go.
>>
>> Harry
>>