[TheForge] Ribbon burners

[Jerry Frost]

Thanks Rick.

Do you have any pictures you can send on the side or 
the Photoaccess site?

How many 3/8" holes and what was the spacing?

Did you have to re-tune the burner? Alter the psi 
significantly? anything else?

Frosty
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it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.


From: "Rick Korinek" <rickkorinek at verizon.net>



> Frosty,
>
> I have made ribbon burners for my gas forge.
>
> Actually they are ribbon nozzles on the ends of 3/4" 
> Zoeller burners.  0-15
> psi propane, no blower.
>
> I used 3/4" 90 deg sweeps (electrical rigid conduit) 
> between the burner Ts
> and the ribbon nozzles.
>
> The ribbon nozzles consisted of a sheetmetal (about 
> 1/16" or 16 ga.)
> manifold at the end of the 3/4" sweep.
>
> The very end of the ribbon burner is light weight 
> insulating firebrick with
> 3/8 holes drilled into it--through the 2 1/2" wide 
> side.  The firebrick
> slides into the bottom of the sheetmetal manifold and 
> is what protudes into
> the forge chamber.  The firebrick is friction fit 
> into the bottom of the
> manifold and sticks out 1".
>
> The manifold actually has 2 separate chambers that 
> are feed with 2 Zoeller
> burners above.  The result is that I can use 1 or 2 
> burners as needs arise.
> A longer "burner ribbon" with more burners can easily 
> be envisioned.  An
> idle circuit rounds out the gas circuit.
>
> The heating effect of this arrangement is a very 
> uniform long heat without
> the cold spot between more conventional burner 
> nozzles.  The length of
> heating is about 7" long with both burners running.
>
> Another benefit is that the burner nozzles are very 
> long lasting.
>
> -Rick
>