[TheForge] Re: forging questions

[Mike Spencer]

Frosty wrote:

> We had a sack of feed grain go bad on us and I gave it a lash for
> the heck of it....So it was dried feed corn, not cobs. It burned
> surprisingly like coal but when I thought about all the oil and
> sugar in corn it's maybe not so surprising.

Huh.  Okay.  And I'm guessing it wasn't popcorn. ;-)

> ...I have this THING about burning food for fuel.

Yeah, me too.

>  He bought an overpack drum, these are designed to contain leaking
> 55gl. drums so they have clamp on lids and are somewhere around
> 70gl. I'd know for sure but I'm not searching it out. Anyway, I made
> him some steel cross bars to keep a 55gl. drum off the bottom with
> it laid on it's side.

Right. roughly the same Idea I had only what I have on hand is a 200
gal oil tank.  I'm stalled figuring out what to use for the inner
shell or how to crawl in there and weld in a partition. (That kind of
crawling into things is getting harder these days.)

> We put a street 90 in the bung in the lid of the 55gl drum pointing
> to the edge...

Never heard of one them.  Google tells me all but now I wanna know why
it's called that.  Why'zit called that?

- Mike

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