Benjaman

Okay so, recently a while back I saw a forge that had a vertically sliding forge door activated by a lever. I cannot for the life of me find the picture of it or of one In general. I'm kinda tossing the idea around of building one because I love the design, but I would like to see a picture of one and see how the lever system would work. I have  an idea in my head on how to go about this regardless. I just think it would help to see a picture.

Anybody seen/know what I'm talking about? I saw the picture on instagram but after an hour of searching I came up with nothing. I saw another video on YouTube a year or so ago of one. Any help would be appreciated!

Biggest one I've seen was 250lbs. Anyone ever seen anything bigger?

On 3/17/2017 at 5:22 AM, Dave51B said:

 Quick non researched question......Is that style spring common on the larger vices? Very nice find Ben.       Life is good       Dave

Out of all the 8 inch Colombians I've seen they've all been this style spring. But I've seen the smaller ones have both. This is part of s catalog from 1924 I think. And it shows a picture of it with that style. 

Finally got my hands on an 8 incher! Thing it awesome!

1 hour ago, EJRailRoadTrack said:

Personally, I would make your floor firebrick.Then mount your burner in the bottom on the side. It would swirl around your top, Plus, you could interchange tops for different jobs.

 

 

The floor is going to be firebrick. Interchange tops?

22 minutes ago, Frosty said:

How much volume is the forge? Rule of thumb says two 1" burners will bring around 1,400 - 1,500 cu" volume to welding temp. 

I think the popular orientation is about 1/2 way up one side and aimed at the center of the floor.

Frosty The Lucky.

After the lining and the brick in the floor, if my math is right. It should only be about 550 cubic inches. The last one I built was right around 950 cubic inches, by the way I'm also using the same burners.

My other one would come up to heat just fine, but it took it around 20-25 minutes to come up to full heat, the whole idea behind this smaller one was to come up to heat quick, and besides the fact that I wanted a flat easily replaceable floor.

Deminsions of just the housing are 

13.5 long, 13 wide, 10.5 at the tallest point of the elipse.

With a 2 inch lining of inswool, a couple coatings of satanite, ict-100, and the 2 and a half inch firebrick should give me a forge chamber of around 5.5 at the tallest point, 8.5 wide and 13.5 inches long.

2 Naturally aspirated 1 inch burners.

What would be the best burner placement for a half round forge like this? I'm not quite sure what the best angle would be. Would you just mount them like it's a full round and get the same swirl effect? I don't think it would work like that but I don't know. 

That's forsure an American made Trenton. 

On December 25, 2016 at 6:26 PM, C-1ToolSteel said:

For cleaning, soak in diesel, or Kroil oil.

I second kroil, AMAZING stuff. 

55% nickel rods,

PREHEAT

POSTHEAT

I messaged that person. Found it on craigslist. She never replied! And I messaged her the day she posted it. 

Probably saw my area code and figured I wouldn't drive a couple states to get it and didn't reply. People do that all the time. For 1600 bucks bring take that bad boy home!

I've welded on a couple anvils. I welded one Trenton that was broke in half back together after I ground a pretty good bevel on it. Welded with 7018 and it seems kinda finicky. I had places where the weld just wanted to blow out and grab some porosity and some where it welded just like mild steel. I'm guess because of the impurities in the wrought iron is why it was acting that way. It's not bad at all. If your familiar with stick welding you'll be fine.

Well, I ended up taking the flare off. Moving it about 2 inches back from the liner. Works great! The burner stays nice and cool. No more possible melted propane line. Man that could be real bad. Glad I caught that in time. I figured the burner needed the flare but it doesn't. So we're back in business!

I see I see, some creative thinking!  

Yeah I wasn't asking you do to any math for me. I think it would just need another burner for its size. Anyways, yeah the flare won't fit inside the mount. Didn't quite think it through. I didn't think it would need too! Oh well, xD

I also have noticed the top off my burners. The brass connector that's on the propane line. Is hot to where I can't touch it. Is that normal?

I have the back blocked off completely with some firebrick. I just need to get some more so I can cover the front. Haven't been to the store to do so. 

The way I have the burners held in place I'd have to cut everything apart redrill and weld the mounts back. I don't have a welder in the shop yet. I really need to get one. Not to mention they just banned personal projects at work. So that's kinda outta the option for awhile. I could just cut them off and take a carbide bit to the hole but then they'd more less be dangling. Rather have them securely mounted.

You can see how I have them mounted in the picture. They just barley slide in. I only left about 10-20 thousands play, also I think this housing might be a little big. 

12" diameter 22 inches long.

Thanks again frosty.  

So finally getting the satanite over the inswool. Was curing the first layer when I noticed my burner flare was glowing abnormally hot, to me at least. I'm all new to gas forges. I've seen people say "oh yeah theyll do that its okay" and some people say" no no that's bad. So here I am. After about a minute of burn time they start flowing pretty cherry red, I had the flare adjusted outside of the forge where it wouldn't get hot like that at all. And I've adjusted them in the forge as well, I can't really move them any deeper in the inswool because the flare just sits over the pipe and a hole is drilled and taped for a stud to hold it on.  Here's a picture of it running about 3 or 4 minutes. I would assume they would get that hot anyways because the temperature the forge gets. It makes sense that they would, but I just feel like they shouldn't be. Anybody with some more knowledge chime in?

Score! I woulda hopped on that thing instantly.

Oh I know.  He's already asked a couple times for my other one lol

I kinda down traded on it. I had a 265 lb Budden, it wasn't bad. Had a pretty good ring but the face was kinda soft. Only had around 50 60 rebound. But one side was completely unused, didn't have any visible makers marks though besides the serial# and the batch number, and the other number under the horn. I forget which one that stands for. So I traded it for this smaller one with some cash. 

On October 7, 2016 at 3:17 AM, Peter Bui said:

Nice man!

ive found a 5' blacksmith leg vise on eBay for under $100aud.

Did you pay a good price for yours??

Yeah I got a pretty good deal on it all things considered! And nice price! Post some pics!

So I scored a small arm and hammer tonight, stamped 111 but I haven't put it on a scale yet. Got some chipping but overall it's pretty good shape. EXCEPTIONAL rebound. Gotta love my A&H's!

I sent you pictures quite awhile ago black frog. I can repost if needed but they should be in your messages. As for demensions it's 16" high 6" wide and 42" long 

i was wrong when I said 44" for some reason I had that number in my head lol

Where do you keep the database you've collected? Id love to see what you've got. 

Mines 490 lbs and measures 44 inches long.