[TheForge] Brake Drum forge

[peter fels]

Chicken and egg problem Reis;
He needs the forge to heat up the tubing to make the forge....
Though a backyard campfire would probably do.

On Jun 5, 2011, at 9:32 AM, ries wrote:

> Forge it.
> Its easy to heat up square tubing, and hammer it into a different shape. You can use a round bar as an interior mandrel.
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> On Jun 5, 2011, at 9:25 AM, Hoss McGregor wrote:
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> Young Gallagher,
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> If you have the ability to weld (gas or arc), you should be able to fill the extra space around the square tubing with some scrap iron. It most assuredly will not be pretty, but it'll work.
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>> From: pesetsky at Princeton.EDU
>> To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
>> Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 16:20:04 +0000
>> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Brake Drum forge
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>> I always had the same problem in school trying to make those squares fit into holes!! ha ha
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>> From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net [theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] on behalf of Matt Gallagher [fudgumz at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2011 12:17 PM
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>> Subject: [TheForge] Brake Drum forge
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>> I want to make a brake drum forge, and i have a pre made duck pot, its  2"
>> square tubing, welded into a hollow tee. I want to use a brake drum as the
>> firepot, but I cant think of any way to affix the tubing to the drum seeing
>> as how the tubing is square and the drum has a round hole. any ideas?
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>> ~Matt Gallagher, your friendly teenage blacksmith
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