[TheForge] Metallurgical coke

[Jim Poulimas]

I'm not sure what the British call it. Mike, I swear by my side draft but
the one substantial down side: heating anything wider than bar stock can
guide the smoke far enough away where it won't draw. In other words,
heating plate will be a smoke fest. But they seem to draw much better than
overheads if they are constructed properly.

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:15 PM, <wmullett at bright.net> wrote:

> This is what we always called stoker coal.  Used an automatic screw feed
> to put it in our furnace.  I believe it is what they stiil pump through the
> coal lines here to the power plants along Lake Erie.  Most people never
> heard of pumping coal.
>
> This coal will work just fine if it is not too hard.
>
> I would always prefer working with coal rather than coke.  But then I use
> manual blowers.
>
> ---- Original message ----
> >Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 14:40:21 -0300
> >From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net (on behalf of
> mspencer at tallships.ca (Mike Spencer))
> >Subject: [TheForge]  Re: Metallurgical coke
> >To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
> >
> >
> >> Anyone know where I can get met coke in the New England area? I'm in CT.
> >>
> >> The bigger companies seem to be carrying 1/8" - 3/8" not the chunks
> >> that I've seen for forging.
> >
> >Isn't that approximately what the Brits call "breeze"?  IIRC from
> >seeing it 30 years ago, they use ca. 1/2" chunks and like it very
> >much, can't understand why anyone would want to use smelly, messy
> >green coal.  I'm guessing that the reason the Brits use it is because
> >it's a byproduct from screening coke for industrial metalurgical
> >products and so cheaper than nut size.
> >
> >Although 1/8" does seem a little small and likely to get lost.  A
> >solution to losing too many fines, along with the ashes, through the
> >tuyere might be to use a side draft forge. [1]
> >
> >(I'm presenly building a portable 4-tuyere forge for long heats.  But
> >my next experiment with forge design will be a side-draft.  The late
> >Arch McKnight of Milton, NS used one -- a rarity in NS -- and it
> >worked very well for him and for his father-in-law from whom he
> >acquired the shop circa 1935.)
> >
> >
> >- Mike
> >
> >[1] http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/tuyere.html
> >
> >--
> >Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~.
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> >mspencer at tallships.ca                                     /( )\
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