[TheForge] New forge

[Geoff Nelson]

Normally I lurk but it is quiet.

I have managed to do something in-between working on my house and 
working for the money to work on my house. I built a small gas forge 
from an old propane tank. I lined it with wool impregnated with a 
rigidiser. No idea what the product is as I bought it from a refractory 
supplier as it was over runs from a commercial project. The bottom of 
the forge has a hard refractory brick to rest material on. I am using a 
1 inch side arm burner. Yesterday I decided to make a stirrer for dry 
wall compound and got a length of 8 mm reo to forging heat in less than 
2 minutes from cold. I am very happy with the performance.

However I am not entirely happy with my burner so I am going to have to 
do some work on that. I think I do not have the correct ratio between 
gas jet size and burner open area. I don't know the size of the orifice 
so I will play with open area rather than rebuild the whole burner.

Geoff
Drouin, AU

On 2/05/2012 1:18 PM, Mike Spencer wrote:
> Dan wrote:
>
> dk>  testing.....I haven't gotten a letter from theforge in 7 days....
>
> and Frosty replied:
>
> jf>  Been hanging around, not much to report...
>
> Same, more or less. Doing odds and ends getting ready for gardening
> time -- fix up electric deer fence, haul home some manure, compost the
> past year's kitchen garbage, intall a new pea trellis.  No excitement
> at the anvil.
>
> jf>  ...except it's been warm and I'm enjoying it.
>
> In Nova Scotia, two 80F days in mid *March* -- unheard-of.  If it hits
> 80 for a week in August, everybody complains about the heat.  Now
> three nights of hard frost at the very tail end of April.
>
>
> Just keeping Dan's mailbox warm, y'unnerstand. ;-)
>
>
> - Mike
>