Bakeforger

Frosty, I noticed on your doc you had a pic of one of your forges that had burners coming in at a 45 angle and mounting with floor flanges to the forge. Is there a particular design advantage to this vs. straight down into the forge as shown in a latter picture in the document.

hello, I posted a while back and finally got my forge design up and going. I was wondering if anyone new a good place to look for steel to use for Pattern welding? (Other than a steel supply place) basically looking for cheap/scrap I can use to get a start into it. Thanks!

Thanks guys! I made Frosty's t-burner today and lined the forge with ceramic insulation, lit it up and worked great? Just curious the temp got really high however the heat seemed very localized, should I add a second 1/2" burner towards the rear to add heat to the back end of the forge?

Thanks for the feedback! I will definitely be doing some research into the 1/2" burner. Also what type of insulation or "insulating refractoy" should I use and where would I find it?

I built the gas forge pictured, I read about a few different types of burners and thier capabilities, I decided to go with the 1" burner design shown. I used a 1 1/4" tee and a .030 mig tip, the tube is about 11-12" long and goes directly into the forge just down to the inside of the chamber. Inside dimensions are 2.5"x 4"x 9". The burner seems to flutter a lot as well, spitting fire out the front. And just runs very inconsistent. The way I have it set up I am running about 20psi and still cannot get the inside of the forge to get hot enough to get to a nice yellow hot it just gets to a orange glow. Any suggestions?