LarryM

Dale, Sorry to hear about horrible thing that just happened to you and you wife. Just so you know we all will be thinking about you two. Sincerely Larry and Family

Norseman, First of all what recipe are you using. Second home-brew refractories are not going to be as durable, or Hi-Temp as the commercial mixes. One thing you can do to improve the lining after firing it is to wet the lining, Then brush on a mixture of water, silica sand,and fire clay, Then re-fire the lining. You also can buy furnace putty to coat the interior of the forge. Or a combination furnace putty,and fire brick. Larry

IronWolf, Yes I do plan to filter my oil the filter I use is designed for diesel fuel, or gasoline filter. This filter unit acts as a water separator to. It will not have a paper filter element, just a fine screen. To answer your question yes once the interior is red hot, and the oil has been adjusted, shut off the propane. I usually turn the propane back on, oil off, for shut down, to help burn the remaining oil out of the forge. The oil feed will be gravity fed to the burner. There are quite few waste oil designs for shop heaters on the internet. Some I like some I don't. Matt, You are right this burner is designed after the Moya burner. I have one similar to it that use in my foundry furnace. It uses propane preheat as well. Thanks for the replies I will get more photo as I get it up and running. Larry

These are some pictures of my waste oil burning forge burner. Along with a couple of pictures of the forge. The bent tube entering the rear of the 1 1/2" pipe tee, is the waste oil inlet. Propane preheat enter through the brass elbow on the side of the tee fitting. The blower will be hooked to the barbed 1 1/2" fitting. I'll get more pictures when I fire it up. Larry

Robert, I'm with Dodge on this one. Unless we try new stuff whether in theory, or otherwise we never advance. I do have a question what program did you use to edit the labels in the one picture. I was impressed with the labels. Keep on hammer'n Larry

YEA what he said plus this might help get you started Welded Fire Pot Drawing Hope This Helps Larry

Welcome Ben, You've come to the right place. I live on western slope of Colorado near Grand Junction. Lots of good information on this site. Friendly people to. See Ya Around. Larry

This is one that I built last winter. It's made like the ones on the Zoeller Forge web site. The burner is fabricated, from 2" pipe for the bell fitting. The burner jet is a .030 MIG welding tip. The rest of the burner is 3/4", and 1" pipe. The bolt you see with the wing nut, going into the side is an air choke. There are more pictures in Iforge gallery. Btw it only took short time to make and didn't cost much to build.

I agree with the above posters 100%. All good advise. One thing that works till you get the hang of vertical up, is to tack the plate back away from you at a slight angle instead of a full 90 degrees up. Then as you get the hang of it tilt it back toward you as you practice on different welds. Hope this helps LarryM