[TheForge] Brake Drum forge

[peter fels]

My admiration ..you win extra points for style Mike.
The funny thing about the cardboard forge
 (I think it was a side demo at the CBA conf in Watsonville)
Was that, he'd built the blower and all , out of layered  cardboard too,  glued  together.
Used a bike tube as a drive belt and some small steel rods for axles.
That forge cost under $2 to build.

Tai-Goo and his pals are pretty damn impressive too...
Something out of almost nothing.
I like that sorta stuff.


On Jun 19, 2011, at 8:56 PM, Mike Spencer wrote:

> 
> Weeks ago, PF wrote:
> 
>> I saw a guy make a forge out of cardboard! He lined it with clay mud
>> mixed with ashes. Worked surprisingly well. Just control the excess
>> water you use managing the fire.
> 
> It was, I gather, not uncommon in Nova Scotia, to make forges out of
> wood.  A guy who apprenticed here and then went to work in Tony
> Millham's shop created a stir there when he built his own wooden forge
> along the lines he'd seen here.
> 
> I've only ever seen one of these, one I dismantled in a shop I
> bought. It was all wood, clay and ashes except for a cast iron affair
> about the size of a small throw cushion which served as a tuyere,
> throttle and clinker breaker.  It had been in use by a full-time smith
> for decades.
> 
> One of these times I'll find and digitize the pics of the forge I
> built when I was doing a couple of weeks of dune restoration on Sable
> Island.  Made entirely from stuff salvaged from the government weather
> station dump -- aluminum electric kettle, ceramic RF tuner insulator,
> copper wire and yes, an actual, proper crank forge blower balled solid
> with rust and sand.  Fuel was (1) dried horse buns, plentifully
> available and then (2) coal, pried from the foundations of the
> collapsed, 19th c. life-saving station where it had been used as
> coarse aggregate in the concrete. (The buns worked but the coal have a
> better heat. :-)
> 
> 
> - Mike
> 
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