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9:07 pm
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September 7, 2010
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I purchased this forge cuz my LP forge is to small. I have not done much coal forging. I am not sure about the gap between the firebowl and the basin(?). Do I put bricks, mud, or what have you in that space, should the whole thing be covered in refractory?
Maybe I should post this in PROBLEM SOLVING?
Thank you very much for your help
1:56 am
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August 7, 2010
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Good Morning,
I would build up around the tuyere/fire-pot with whatever you have at hand. Heat goes up, so there won't be a lot of heat around the fire-pot. Yes it will get hot, but it won't burn. If you have some old fire-brick you could make a floor with that, or clay, or mud, or clinker (but you just got the forge so you don't have a supply yet. Maybe someone else does), or sand. It is just a matter of making an area around the fire-pot that you can keep orderly. Tools don't belong around the fire-pot, so make hooks around the outside of the container to hang tools. Use a tool, put it back on it's hook, that way you won't get PO'd when you are looking for something. Keep a pail under the ash-dump, soon you will have your own clinker and ashes.
Some people say that slugs won't cross the clinker, so they make paths around their garden with clinker. Makes into a good driveway as well, weeds don't like to grow in it.
Get or make a big hood, control where the smoke will go, preferably outside. Don't use the forge when the neighbour has laundry hanging outside. Make trinkets for the neighbours to keep on their good side!!
Ask Jack Frost for help with the forge.
Neil
As long as we are above our shoes, We know where we are.:happy:
1:48 am
February 25, 2011
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That is a great forge, I have one like that and it works great. I made refractory insert for it by dividing the table area into sections and then pouring refractory into the spaces. Thus removable refractory lining. But that probably was overkill.
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4:21 pm
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September 7, 2010
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Thank you Neil and David. Valuable information I appreciate it! I have some cone 10
clay (I throw clay on occasion), maybe I could mix it with something and use that for refractory? What I might mix with it; wood chips, vermiculite, sand, straw, these are only guesses mind you.
I think I will replace some of the rusted hardware too.
I digress...I headed for Bend after I posted the original question, I just returned. I love it up there, I am leaving Southern Oregon a.s.a.p. and moving to Bend. There are sculpted iron horses at a couple of roundabouts. They obviously support the arts.
Thanks again
Kenny O
4:49 am
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August 7, 2010
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Good Morning,
Don't need the refractory, nothing to refract. Make it with woodchips, you can burn the whole house down. Make it with sand, clay, old firebricks, clinkers. They have already been through the heat and won't burn anymore. Don't out-trick yourself.
I as well enjoy the area, Sisters, Bend, Redmond. The first time there was for a Spring Conference, completely different from the Coast. Pine trees with lots of space between them, almost like a desert if you don't water it.
Enjoy the change.
Neil
As long as we are above our shoes, We know where we are.:happy:
4:11 pm
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September 7, 2010
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Okay I get it, more or less just a filler, bondo-esque no heat to speak of. I will go find some of the debris mentioned. I'll get busy and put up an update later.
I lived in Flagstaff AZ. for 25 years, which is upper Sonoran Desert. The geography is very similar to Bend, volcanic and lots of Ponderosa pines, very dramatic landscapes.
Hopefully we will be up there before summers end.
Thank you again Neil!
Kenny O
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