[TheForge] Re: TheForge Digest, Vol 55, Issue 31

[Andrew Vida]

The best potential idea I've seen, and I hate so very much to admit it, 
comes from Bruce Freeman.  He devised a "steerable" intake that could be 
moved at will to whatever location is most convenient for the smith. 
The details needed some tuning, but the basic idea is sound and I think 
it would be a very good solution to the occasional problem of a hood 
being in the way of the more ideal position of work in the fire.  One 
thing I greatly dislike about side draft hoods is when it is in the way 
of how I want to place the work in the fire.  Top draft hoods generally 
work like crap - they suck because they don't suck.

Rick Korinek wrote:
> There's a smith in Wisconsin, Monty Bygd, who is a pipe fitter.  He made a
> flue out of 14" dia. Pipe.  It is bolted to a footing on the ground outside
> the shop.  A section of the pipe comes in through the wall at a 45 degree
> angle in a "side-draft" approach to the forge.  I hear it works very well.
> 
> -Rick