[TheForge] Forge Design.

[jerry Frost]

Yes, it's called a chip bed forge and is pretty much what you'll find in
Europe for a gas forge. It seems to be designed to mimic a coke forge and is
pretty limited to the designed fire size. They come in different models and
sizes though. Ron Reil and I were noodling around with getting one to work
with a NA burner. Ron thought he had a workable idea but I don't know what
became of it. He was bound and determined to get his linear burners refined
to a high art and I was plenty happy with how my T designed ejector worked
so we just sort of stopped brainstorming burners and forges.

My intuition says a chip bed forge really needs a gun (blown) burner to
overcome the back pressure of pushing the air/fuel through the chips. The
mix needs to burn in the chips to work and I just never spent any time but
thinking and sketching ideas. Never experimented let alone prototyped one.

Jer
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From: TheForge [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Bruce
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Sent: Friday, April 10, 2015 3:31 PM
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wasn't there a thread YEARS ago about a gas forge that heated a pile of
ceramic pellets, simulating a bed of coal.  It sounded interesting, but I've
never tried it myself.

Bruce
NJ

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 11:01 AM, CGRAF <adveniam at att.net> wrote:

> Most of us have used , or are using, Coal and gas fired forges.
> I am frustrated by the limitations of each.
>
> The coal has the whole irritating the neighbors with the odor issue.
>
> The gas forges have problems putting the heat exactly where I want it 
> heating up to large an area or limiting the forms I can make and still 
> insert the piece into the forge.
>
> I have been playing with forges built to purpose out of just a loose 
> pile of firebrick. This allows me to modify fire shape and area pretty 
> much on the fly. It is a bit more trouble than changing the shape, 
> size and intensity of a coal fire but not much more.
>
> Anybody else out there have any thing that you have tried to address 
> these or other issues with differing fuels and forge designs?
>
>
> Mike Graf
>
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