[TheForge] bad thread -ersatz and back to thread

Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer artgawk at thegrid.net
Wed Jun 11 17:13:57 EDT 2008


It works well, but you want to preheat your refractory firebox to a good 
yellow before burning drain oil. Trash diesel ( contaminated) is a good 
starting fuel, and cheap.
My buddy Al was run out of Los Osos for starting a burn with drain oil 
...during daylight..grin....pf

Jim Beard wrote:
> There was a thread over on iForgeIron a while back about a fellow that
> set up a waste oil forge.  He was slowly dripping oil into a forced
> air burner.  I'll see if I can dig up the link...
> 
> http://www.iforgeiron.com/forum/f7/waste-oil-burning-forge-4219/
> 
> It looked pretty interesting to say the least.
> 
> Jim
> Eugene, OR
> 
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:47 AM, lee robbins <naturadoc1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> About 7 dollar kerosene at lowes?  Get a gas can and
>> you can drop it to a cheap 5 dollars a gallon, even
>> less if you get it for home heating and avoid the
>> taxes. When i was in Kumamoto, japan at Mitsu's
>> (takamitsu toshinobu) studio, he has taught at
>> Campbell Folk, he forged iron using kerosene. no forge
>> welding though. In the '90's it was a cheaper
>> alternative to propane.
>>
>> Lee
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