[TheForge] Metallurgical coke

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Mike, There is a company out of Birmingham, AL that supplies blacksmith coke. L Brand Forging Coke(I think)  678-360-3521  or  LBrandForgeCoke at aol.com   I think the agent is Ed Avolio. 



Mark Williams 

Snow Hill, Maryland 



----- Original Message -----


From: "Jim Poulimas" <poulmas at gmail.com> 
To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net> 
Cc: mspencer at tallships.ca 
Sent: Friday, July 6, 2012 2:07:12 PM 
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Metallurgical coke 

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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