[TheForge] oil forge

[Andrew Vida]

One of my professors lived on Staten Island and build a beautiful and 
rather large oil-fired kiln.  As pointed out elsewhere you could have 
probably gotten a 1/2 a VW into it.  It was fired by FOUR oil burners 
and seemed to do the job.

On 9/10/2013 1:28 AM, Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer wrote:
> My old Buddy Al Kinkle ( RIP) used to fire pottery kilns with deep fry oil...Cone 7....Hot!
> He used gravity feed, needle valves and vacuum cleaner blowers with a sloping firebox.
> Took a while to get the firebox up to working temperature and used contaminated diesel to start.
> He had some truck oil filters in the line.
> I've heard of it being done with an oil furnace burner as well.
>
> On Sep 9, 2013, at 4:12 PM, Matthew DeStito wrote:
>
> Sounds like a cool idea...let me know what you find.
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Dan Scheid<damales at pollybutte.net>  wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Since I started with blown forges. My minds been going any way to do a bio
>> diesel  or veg oil burner for forge work? My not be worth the trouble but I
>> was wondering.
>> Dan Scheid
>>
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