[TheForge] Re: Long heat forge

[Mike Spencer]

me> Visible progress (slowed by cold weather) on building a forge that
me> can take a long heat, viz. air supplied from a horizontal
me> stainless pipe with four vertical nipples and a widget to turn
me> on/off 1, 2, 3 or all four nipples.  Old oil furnace blower
me> converted to forge blower.  Bunch of tedious welding and twiddling
me> yet to do.

Fred Zickrick <fredz72 at cableone.net> replied:

> I sure hope you post some pics of this somewhere perhaps 
> iForgeIron.

I thought that was an trick that everybody else knew years before I got
onto it.  Maybe not.  Sure, when the stainless air-thingy is done,
I'll put some pics on my own web site and post a note here.

At least two other guys here have forges like that.  I got the how-to
from Jerry Levy.  (Tnx Jerry.)

I'm getting a chance to use my own li'l program to cut a 45 deg. joint
in 3.5" stainless pipe.  Appears to have worked perfectly.  We'll see
when I do the fitup. (Too cold in the shop tonight, 10F, so we stayed
in nigh the fire. I made peanut butter cookies and we watched The
Fellowship of the Ring. Yes, it has blacksmithing scenes. :-)

> Happy New Year to all. 

Same.

> Especially glad to be able to say it to Frosty!

Yes, indeed.  Only *wishing* him a happy new year is probably bringing
coals to Newcastle.  I reckon you're pretty happy already, right,
Frosty? ;-)


- Mike

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