oldshove

Tiger brand blower, home made forge out of a 45 gal drum. The seller threw in a small 4" vice and a couple pairs of tongs. All of which need some TLC .

Thanks Frosty for the reply . I have most of the stuff I need to build a propane forge only short a few bricks [ LOL]. I all ready have a little one I built a few years ago but I have out grown it.

I was just curious about what he was using as insulation having not seen anything about it on the forums here . The other video of using that stuff to make a one brick forge the guy really needs to look at your T burner plans. jmac

Thanks Tim I was a little skeptical about what I was watching [If it,s on the internet it has to be true] I tried googeling it up and I kept getting sent to that site  jmac

Hers a link to a youtube video using this stuff https://youtu.be/P1Ks_Fybtfg thanks jmac

I watched a couple of YouTube video's  using this product as a refractory or just drilled a couple of holes in it to make a minnie forge. Can somebody decode this information into something I can understand . [The Ytong Energy PLUS blocks are produced from Sand, Lime, Cement and Aluminium Oxide. The outher layers are made from Aerated Concrete with a density of 340 kg/m3 the the core is made from a highly insulating Autoclaved Aerated Concrete with a density of 115 kg/m3 The thermal conductivity 10 dry is (P=90%) : 0,0899 W/mK ] Thanks jmac

Kinda a rescue pup .Xmass puppy turned out they could not deal with her.Pic of her first day with me rite after she pulled my travel bag of the chair and peed in it;She has me well trained now. jmac

Are you shure there is only 2 filing sides on it , Years ago I saw a 4 sided sharping stone each side got finer .It looked a lot like that I was told it was for knife makers

jmac

Thanks for the reply's and info guys. After about a hr I found the plans again I'm sticking with them. jmac

To funny I just heard that song on the radio

If you realy want to get old school there called single jacks not star drills .Single jack [one man use] double jack [two men one man holds one hits]  I have one I blunted the tip and use it to make stars on my wizard hats

Take a look at this way .lots of practice with tapering, hammer control ,pretty easy to build

I know I read it some where on here but cant find it again. Size of fire opening and flue size   [12in flue] some how I have it my head that the fire opening should be smaller than the flue or do,s it not matter. thanks jmac

I,m with you on this , The best way to clean it up more is to heat some steel and start forging it will planish up nicely .jmac

chain saw dog

heres a couple of pic,s of the wedge and spring looks like

10 hours ago, ThomasPowers said:

Stop by my shop in Socorro and I'll lend you a set of brazing tongs I have on my rack

LOL I live in Canada little town called Avola in the rocky mountains  but thanks for the offer.

And thanks Kozzy and John B for the info its pretty much what my research has lead me to. I checked into blade repair guy he is 90 miles away so I,m going to try it.I.l post some pics off try. But first I have to get that vice out of the vice

Thanks for the reply's guys.I probable could find someone with a blade welder but I have never fix one so I,d like to give it a crack .

So I live in a small town [28 fulltime residents  maybe 35 in the summer] The old go to guy is all crippled up so I,m it now.

One of the nabours brought a band saw blade over for me to try and fix off his little sawmill.

One inch blade, unknown material probable one of the cheapest blades out there .

Any one fixed one before .I understand you should forge weld them back together that's about all I know.

Any tips tricks or advise would be appreciated thanks 

Ya use the ferul  rite on the mig tip it,s a tight fit but it go,s on.I have had that old harris regulator for 25 years and it was used when I got it allways have used propane may be a couple acetylene bottels threy it.Mind you if your cutting using propane and oxygen you do need a special tip

At least its not as xxxxxx as the one I picked up,it is missing the spring and I think one wedge. I,ll post a couple pics then you can see how they go together.

Mine was broken at one time and the back jaw twisted up and out of shape. Instead of heating it up and twisting it back to shape they just welded it up ,the jaws are a way out of wack so I,m cutting her open and going to heat and try and twist back in to shape.

Yours should be a easy fix {Ya rite LOL} The wedge is just a chunk of flat bar with a slight taper on the edge.

The spring if you can find a old small trailer or car leaf spring  you should be able to make one up jmac

Great looking burner thanks for the plan. Couple little hints instead of using a flare fitting try using a compression fitting 1/8th to 1/4 NPT I believe, you can adjust the mig tip by moveing the compression ring up or down the tip. Get a assortment of tip size, I started with a 35 I,m down to a 25 it seems to work well. I also use a Acetylene regulator on my  on my propane tank I can regulate it down to 7 lbs from there I use 1/4 ball valve to control flow.

That being said I,m only heating 160 cu inchs but I can light the forge throw in a RR spike and sit down roll a smoke have couple sips of coffie  takes about 4 1/2 mineuts to get hot enough to forge. I am using a bit of a different design then Frosty.s T burner {I got it off the hard core site} but they both are pretty fool prof in design and build.My 2c oldshove 

I,m up in Avola just getting flashed back up after a 5 year break. john

Try running a tap in the hole cut some threads in it.Then just heat the rivet for the interference fit .