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I think there may be interest here in Ontario as well Jake. There was a local source of coke that was reasonably high quality and cheap. A lot of the guys got used to it and appreciated the lack of smoke. Currently there is a source here in Hamilton but the size is too large and quality is hit and miss.

If there are enough of you in Ontario then I would see about getting a container directly. It'd be cheaper than shipping it to the west coast and then truckng it all the way back east! I can give you the contact info for the cole supplier if you want.

I rarely, if ever use my water cooled side blast (nods to Jack) forge; the induction heater, various gas forges and oxypropane torch (and a potential future ribbon burner) saw to that) ...... but as a bona fide Limey I can totally recomend Monkton beans from the days when being "pure" was more important than earning a living. Seriously though, it's good stuff.

John

Having got used to my induction heater(and loving it) I'd say there's not much that it can't do that a big rosebud with oxy propane and some hard insulation bricks won't do .... if you can put up with the noise and HEAT pumped into the workshop, and maybe the cost of the gases.

Before I got inducted I used to do 99% of my upsetting with a rosebud; much quicker and more controllable than a coke forge ..... if you can put up with the scaling (my work is "arty"so scale generally isn't an issue with me.

Re changing coils, the more powerfull the machine, the more loose the electromagnetic coupling between the coil and the work you can put up with (ie a big gap between coil and work). Mines a 25kVAand I find I use a 3 turn rectangular coil about 2.5 by 1.5 inches as a general purpose coil. Wiggling work back and forwards you can get a reasonable heat on a lot of x sections relatively quickly and can also pass a lot of the wiggly wiggly organic stuff I sometimes do through it.

.... less burning of tips and pointed things with an induction heater

david hyde;6813 wrote: John

Having got used to my induction heater(and loving it) I'd say there's not much that it can't do that a big rosebud with oxy propane and some hard insulation bricks won't do .... if you can put up with the noise and HEAT pumped into the workshop, and maybe the cost of the gases.

OOPS meant to say it the other way round, the rosebud will do most things an induction will do, just a LOT noiser and wasteful of gas. I guess the induction can give tighter heats though but it sure would be a ball ache passing a 20' bar through a coil to heat the middle, oxy propane kinda comes into it's own there.

Those ecomoisers sure are a must for us selfemployed work alone types with only two hands....

I am interested as well in a ton. When will the shipment be available?