Irondragon Forge ClayWorks

Will do, she was upset because our fur kid Daisy dog got bit by a copperhead and her foot (the dogs) swelled up to twice it's size. A quick trip to the vet was in order. The dog is going to be fine and on a 7 day course of antibiotics to prevent any secondary infection.

I finished the metal work on the forge. Welded together angle iron channels and welded them to the forge for the fire brick doors. We decided on soft firebrick because we have a lot of it from the kiln's. Also cut some kiln shelf for the floor. I will get some pictures of it running when the sun goes down. Probably will paint it black with 2000 degree high heat paint.

Front view would anyone believe me if I say I planned the channels to be on an angle?

rear view

 Depends on what you put on top and how it's anchored, four 6X6s bolted together to make 12X12 would be more stable.

1 hour ago, (M) said:

For this burner or one like it could I get away with a 1-20 or even 1-10 psi propane regulator?

I doubt that it will be your last burner so go with the 0-30 psi regulator.

When I find a relative thread for what I'm doing, I bookmark it in a folder named Blacksmith. It helps a lot for going back and re-reading.

My wife and I have had some heated discussions about kiln washes so we won't go there. She doesn't know how it will react, outside of the glaze formulas and is not into experimenting.

1 hour ago, Frosty said:

Good grief, I take a day for a club meeting and I miss a pun thread. DRATS! Oh well, complaining is fu tile.

Your forge is coming along really well What can your better half tell us about using Veegum? What does she think about what we're wanting to try using it for?

Frosty The Lucky.

She has only used it in certain pottery glazes and has no idea how it would work when mixed in a castable refractory or IR reflecting wash.

I remember Ike, torrential rain and wind. Tore up the chicken house curtains we had on the forge. Now that the curtains are in shreds again I'm going with something tougher next.

I use 80 wt gear oil, some use chainsaw bar oil with STP or Dura-Lube added. To get the bearing race out in your picture, you need a spanner wrench that goes in the two holes.

Did you oil it like instructed back in January? Looks to me like the grease may have picked up pieces of bad bearings or gear chips and jammed in the bottom of the teeth. Use a solvent like kerosene and wash out all of the grease with a brush, while working the gears back & forth to see how badly they are worn.

In southern Florida, my mothers home which my father built in 1947 had those style shutters for hurricane protection. We could close up her house in less than ten min. while all the neighbors had to take all day nailing up plywood (if they could find any). I'm making some for our shop out of tongue & groove pine.

Wonder if it could be an anvil or die for a big power hammer?

Fired it up a while ago and ran it at 3 psi for a few min. then gradually increased the psi and opened the air choke until it was running at 15 psi. The bubble alunima cured without any problems and it came up to yellow heat pretty quick.

I took another kiln shelf to block the rear port and found out we will not use kiln shelves for the doors. When the forge was shut off and cooling down we heard a ting and found the shelf to be cracked (sounded just like a blade ting when quenching wrong). So Debi wants to use soft fire bricks in a channel for the doors, that way we wont have to worry about transporting fragile kiln shelves.

May have been good the air bags failed to deploy with all the recalls of Takata air bags that the dealers can't do because of the unavailability of new air bags from the manufacture. Glad everyone is on the mend and "someone" was looking out for them.

My doctor told me years ago I had to give up wine women and song...

So far I've quit singing.

Good information to have. I picked up over 400 pounds of cut up sucker rod and have made many anvil hardy's from them. They were cut to about four foot lengths and many of the ends were cut off which I have. Some one put them in the city metal dumpster where I worked and the mayor and shop foreman gave me permission to take anything I wanted. Too bad the city did away with the metal dumpster years ago.

20 hours ago, Exo313 said:

I think that's a bit dramatic.

Dramatic would have been what I really think about someone grinding on an anvil face.

Because this is a G rated forum I held back and yes a flap disk is grinding.

Thanks Mike, the beauty of the cart is it cost 0$, made from all reclaimed materials (cannibalized BBQ grill and some heavy gauge sheet metal from a metal building).

Today we finished the bubble alunima coating. Had to put a layer about a third of the way up and let it set up then roll the forge and put the top layer in. I found an old pool noodle that fit the burner port so used some as a form to keep the port open. Also solved the secondary air problem a while back. Just had to insert the burner about a quarter inch deeper so now the choke works as it should.

Will let it cure overnight then fire it up tomorrow to slowly cure it.

56 minutes ago, CHUCK M said:

Sounds like I made out really well!!! It is in great condition I will try to get some better pics outside in some better light.

I think ya done good. Please do not take to sanding/grinding on the face of the anvil. All it needs is hot metal worked on it to shine.

At under $2 a pound it was a good deal. Without seeing the before pictures it's hard to tell how much damage you have done with the flap disc. If it was very light then maybe you only removed decades from its face.

Thanks for the reminder about the rubber bladder. We'll be sure to cut them in half with an angle grinder or saber saw, to get the badder out.

I would wager that there are some Blacksmith's organizations near you. If you can join one the chances are better than even they have coal to sell members. You might start here with the FABA. Look in the resources/clinker breaker area on that site.

http://blacksmithing.org/

Not 1 but 2 water pressure tanks and 3 heavy mower blades. My wife sees 4 fancy fire pots out of the tanks. I love the guys at the county trash compacter who let us scrounge for free.

3 minutes ago, JHCC said:

Non, nous avons reconnu l'asperge.

 

 

Now that's funny, I don't care who ya are.

Y'all missed my play on words. Asparagus is my term for aspersions. But I totally missed the opportunity regarding casting.

Are we casting asparagus on my avatar?