Jimw3326

I didn't have enough to coat the whole thing at the time so here I am. Old adage 'If you don't have time to do it right the first time, when will you have time to do it over?'. Doesn't necessarily apply here but I think of it every time I have to do something over.

That's how I coated mine but it's not a solid coating. I put the 296 around the openings and gaps. The actual blanket just has the 100 on it. BTW Frosty, you're not butting in, I asked for any and all opinions.

So I go to remove the burner and no-go. Turns out the exit has belled, pretty wild. Also disintegrating. It's about an 1 1/2" to long, .8125 id X 8.75 running a .031 tip. I do have the inlet beveled. With the 2 burners, it would melt a #2 crucible of copper in 20-30 minutes. Volume is about 990 in3, 10w. X 9h. X 14d. I used 9.5 for the dia. The volume will reduce a little as I plan to line it with the cast refractory and still use the same depth of blanket, 2".

I'll get some better pics and details this weekend of the burners. Haha, It's not oval but round, just has a rectangular opening the same width as the floor. I kind of need it in this configuration since I toss a crucible in it to melt down brass and copper for knife parts. My main concern at this time is the fibers being blown out from some damaged areas.

After perusing the forum the past couple weeks, I've come to realize I need to change a few things up. I built my forge about 6 years ago on what I thought was sound info. It does what it was intended to do, just need to make it safer. It's made from an old compressor tank that the bottom rotted out. Cut the bottom out at the caps and half way up, cut the top in half and rotate. Lined with 2 1" layers of cera blanket and coated with itc 100 and 296. Floor is a split hard fire brick. It has 2 1-1/4 linear burners of a design I saw somewhere that I loosely copied, but they do work pretty good. I'm gonna reuse the tank but with a cast refractory and build better burners. These are the best pictures I have at the moment. Any and all suggestions/opinions are appreciated.

Just saw this last night. Prayers out for Mr. Powers and his family and friends. I would have enjoyed getting to meet and learning from him since he's in my area. I will make it a practice to read up on his posts to gain some insight to the man.

I thought I did. It works different on my phone than the PC so I still don't know if it's showing. Doesn't show up on the phone.

Howdy all. I've been a member since 10/16. Gleaned enough info to build my forge and mess around a little before life smacked me in the face and had to buckle down. Managed to pound out a few knives over the years but it slowly waned. Getting back into it a little and looking forward to catching up.