[TheForge] Metallurgical coke

[Jim Poulimas]

Mike sorry I thought you meant side draft hood. Side draft forge - I know
nothing about that.

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Jim Poulimas <poulmas at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> 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
>> >
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