[TheForge] Brake Drum forge

[wmullett at bright.net]

We (WRABA) have a wooden forge in our shop in Burton, Ohio.  The forge is a four poster with dovetailed corners and a drawer.  The grand bellows is mounted on tow posts off the end and the air feeds into a stone tuyere.

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>Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:56:52 -0300
>From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net (on behalf of mspencer at tallships.ca (Mike Spencer))
>Subject: [TheForge]  Re: Brake Drum forge  
>To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
>
>
>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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