connecting the blower

[Sabre]

well i recently bought this buffallo forge blower off ebay for $70 and greased it up..Works great...

I need to attach it to my forge now...it came with no stand or even a spot for a stand ... only a handel...so i was thinkin to take 2 pieces of quarter inch round and connect it to the top and bottom of the blower an weld or bolt the other side to the forge....

i will include a pic of the forge( unfinished pic for better view) and a pic of the blower....

Being as i just got into a house in calafornia ALL my forging stuff is stuck in canada till we can get it down and because i am only 13 i really have no control over the borde to let us bring it down..... i have abour 200 pounds of rr spikes and 30 pounds rebar so i am thinkin of buyin a cheap bbq nd makin a quick forge....
Only problen will be an anvil! ill look fer one but ther than that ill be stuck with a thick chunk of steel that i found in between where the 2 tracks split( U know the 1 inch thick by 4 inch wide by 2 feet long piece where the track switches) Or a track plate

Hope to get smithin asap.

Thanks,
Sabre

[Sabre]

noone has any idea?

[hill.josh]

I'd jus do like what you were saying except use 1/8x1in. flat bar and bolt it with that. I'm guessing that its steel? not cast iron

[highlander]

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[djhammerd]

Quarter inch round is not going to be heavy enough for supporting your blower. A single 1/4 x 1 inch bracket probably wouldn't be enough either. 1/4 inch plate could be used, but, if I had the inclination to attach it directly to the forge, I would use heavier material (maybe 5/16th to 3/8" plate), welding that plate to the forge and bolting the blower to it using the existing holes.

Personally, I'm not sure I would attach the blower directly to the forge. I would probably make a stand (pipe on base) and use flexible pipe to the forge so I could move the blower to suit differing needs.

[SK-Buckwheat]

My Grandfather had a forge with that same blower on it. The original design of it was that the blower clamped into the piping from the tuyere to the blower. There was a small bracket that supported it right at the neck of the blower. I still have that blower too. Kinda like a keepsake.

[unkle spike]

On mine, I slotted the pipe so the seams in the blower slid in, it is a snug fit, and used a small bracket attached to one of the bolts on the housing.

[Sabre]

so if u took some egusaust pipe ( i spelt it wrong) and welded it to my tuyere then bent it up to becise the forge , cut slots in it ans firrind the end of the blower into it and then just bolted a piece of flat bar to the bottem so it supports it more. this sounds like it would work?

Thanks for the responses guys

[Frosty]

If you take the blower to a muffler shop they can stretch it so it slips over the end of your blower, then you can clamp it on and not have to weld to the blower.

After that it's just a matter of plumbing the pipe to the tuyere.

That or make a bolt on bracket and stand, using longer bolts on the blower to reach the bracket so once again you don't have to do any welding to the blower itself. Then use flex pipe to plumb to the tuyere.

Welding on a fine old blower is the last thing I'd consider myself.

Frosty

[Finnr]

My blower like that fit snuggly over a piece of scrap 1 1/2 inch stainless steel milk line. I just ran the bolts in the housing up tight and ran a 1/4 inch brace to the lip of the forge. Never had a problem with it being less that sturdy.
Finnr