BT

I forgot your other question. You shouldn't need a grate over this. The clinker breaker should keep the coal from falling into the ash dump. BT

Stryder First, I had to figure out where Tunas, Mo is located. :-) You're not all that far from me, but I've never heard of Tunas. I believe that tuyere is one that was originally designed to be used in a masonry forge with a bellows. The tapered end of a bellows should fit right into the tapered fitting on the tuyere. The firepot would then be formed with fire brick or whatever in the masonry forge. That being said, there shouldn't be any reason you couldn't adapt it to a fabricated metal forge and build some kind of firepot around it. At least that is my opinion, I am sure there will be other ideas here. BT

Ralph is right. They work much like a Coleman stove. We had one of these when I was a kid. Ours was designed to use gasoline, preferably white gas, but we always used regular gasoline. You would fill the tank, and pressurize it with the built in pump. Ours had a screw on the underside of the burner that you loosened to let raw gas drip into the pan under the burner. When the pan was almost full, you closed the screw and set the pan on fire. When the gas in the pan was almost completely burned you would open the burner valve. The burner assembly would be then be hot enough to vaporize the gasoline coming through the burner. BT

Here in the Ozarks, we still have the remnants of the charcoal making industry. The kilns in this area look like concrete Quonset huts with large steel doors on the end. Several truck loads of cordwood, mostly oak and hickory, are loaded into the kiln and set on fire. The doors are closed and sealed with mud. There is a small vent in the top of the kiln to let the gas escape. The fire will burn for several days and take several days to cool. Several years ago, during a particularly dry summer, a trucker was hauling a load of fresh charcoal from a kiln to a briquet factory. The load hadn't completely cooled yet. When the trucker took off, the load caught fire, spewing burning charcoal and starting fires along a 10 mile stretch of country backroads. BT