[TheForge] Re: Fire Clay

[Mike Spencer]

> ...was told that fire clay is not available in Mass.

Say what?  Does it get you high?  Or suppress political corruption?

Try a ceramics supply house if there aren't any furnace or boiler guys
near you. 

AFAIK, fire clay is just clay with a lot of grog in it.  Grog is
already-fired clay ground up to <mumble> size/grit (way coarser than
clay particles though.)

I used a rivet forge for years and rarely needed a large fire.  I put
a firebrick on edge on either side of the tuyere and piled coarse
sand on either side.  I just was careful not to rake the sand into
the fire.  The bricks made it easier to keep a 3"-4" bed of coke
under the workpieces, too.

But maybe your "farrier's forge" is shaped wrong for the brick & sand
arrangement.


FWIW,
- Mike

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