ryancrowe92

How do you put a valve in the circuit? and my model of air blower has a gate on the side where the air comes in at so that's a plus, and I need to find a new foot pedal on of better quality I have to use one with a certain gauge of wire over 12 gauge I think.

On my old dirt box forge i used a HF foot pedal switch which works quite well for what I was doing and I made a few s hooks with it. You bring the fire up to temperature and then cut off the air flow while you are working at the anvil which keeps you from burning up all of your fuel, but with it there is no precise way to manage airflow properly, its either all on or off, but at the same time I was using an old heater fan for an air source and it did have a rheostat but I left it all the way up and just used the footplate. 

I thought about keeping the blower further away from the fire using a longer pipe. But I'm in the process of making a welded fire pot forge. I have all the tools to make one just have to get the steel to make it with, and the dimensions for the fire pot. I can engineer the rest 

I have been using my JOBD for a while now and I think its time to build me a better forge. I have all the tools necessary to build one. I just need the dimensions for a good welded fire pot so I can build my table around it. I also picked up a proper electric forge blower 3 inch from the blacksmiths depot. 

is there a way to make this forge work with a proper 3 inch electric coal forge blower instead of a hair dryer? 

Just using it to get by until i can make a proper forge

Hey guys sorry for no post in a couple of days but I have good news and bad news but mostly good news

Good news is that I got my driver's license today!!! So here's where the bad news comes in I have to make some repairs to the truck mostly lighting.

Now the not so bad but not good news I am relocating to an actual shop my dad has not too far from my house. Meanwhile I am having to help him fix the shop because it has some problems but thoes will be resolved so.

I probably won't be posting on this thread again I'm getting my other forge today.

So  I'll post when the new shop is sort of done

How you been Charles nice too see you. Guys the video is uploading I will send link later

WeWell I'm gonna take a break mabye make a video and show you some things

41 minutes ago, Frosty said:

You can't build a fire

I can do that but I'm running out of fuel if you are still with everything.

41 minutes ago, Frosty said:

No wonder your Father and Grandfather don't want you messing with things,

That is because he is going to use it for something else.

You know what I am going to make that video or get that other forge. I haven't shown my drift pin I've been making I haven't exactly been sitting and doing nothing but I currently have to get all my metal from lawnmowers that's how I made my hot cutter which works BTW and my drift pin I still have to make my hammer drift but I've been doing something so don't go telling me im making excuses I said that I have a problem  I'm running out of wood and I've been looking for a cheap coal substitute.  I'm not trying to start a fight but I'm just saying I have a problem and your telling me to go back to doing something I've already been doing what you told me to stop doing now your telling me to do again. It doesn't make sense.

I would be making hammers but my forge is still in the shop and I'm using the old one right now so let all calm down and get focused. I don't like to fight that just not who I am I don't like offering people. So calm

41 minutes ago, Frosty said:

, I was getting in trouble at 8 for melting things in fires in the back yard with an old hair drier, no blast pipe, no forge, nothing but wood on flat ground and an air blast. Literally romper room simple. 

Me and my brother at that time were getting in trouble for crashing our dad's truck in the ditch. And we were young then I was more of an indoor person back then I didn't get out as much as I do now. So we're not that different.

43 minutes ago, Frosty said:

I'm amazed so many of the gang still try helping you, 

Gang so are y'all like the only people who post on here not to be offending in any way but it seems like every time I start a new thread y'all reply every now and then someone new comes along.

So just wait about 5 pm and I should have the video up so I'll show you my setup might even fire up the old forge and show you how difficult it is to keep fuel in the bowl. So chill  I will post a link later

I'm talking about the length of the pipe and the reality of using trashbags. I know what 3 ft is and I'm saying that I'm gonna need at least that and removing the coating from 3ft of pipe is just agrvating when I can use coal cause I'm getting tired with wood.

Now I can send 250 on steel but here is my reverse ask what good is it when you can't get your metal hot that's why I haven't bought bar stock yet and tooling is expensive. I'm on a low budget you know how long it's gonna take me to aqurie the funds to buy the coal 3 or four weeks if I don't dip in my savings.

I've been looking for cheaper alternatives. I've done research.

Making things when you don't have the right kind of scrap metal is kind of difficult I would love to make an new belt grinder I would also love to build a power hammer but I lack framing materials

I'm about 6ft 5 in so I'm gonna need at least 5 ft of tubing and I don't know how many bags that is gonna take but  I think I have my negotiations in order and I'm gonna save for 500 lbs of coal for $250 and problem solved

The problem is that I don't have steel i don't have the right kind and if I do it's my dad's and he's probably using it for something.

I have all of the main components of a hydraulic press, power hammer, but lack framing materials and it's expensive

Yeah but I don't have a tank to soak the steel in .

I would but I don't have the oh wait I just bought some 1 inch conduit but wait its galvanized.

We came to a conclusion I buy from this dealer and it's 250 for 500 lbs

I might be buying from them after all we found a dealer in NC and that company sends it to where I buy my tools from sometimes so I'm getting as much as I can.

That was what I was doing to begin with then Thomas told me to light it in the forge I cut the slabs into strips I'll make a video and post it on YouTube I finnaly have a channel up now Backyard Ironworks. No public videos yet but ill show how I run things.

I have an axe but it lacks the precision and consumes too much time for one piece of wood I'm using slabs I need them to fit in the brake rotor it runs out of fuel in the bowl and I can't get any back in.

Construction site you realize that I live in the middle of nowhere my dad owns a portable sawmill we use wood for heat but I use mostly pine slabs

And I don't leave the shovel in the fire but thoes fiberglass handles wear over time in the fire quickly

Problem with that I converted the durm into the forge and that's not the only problem

If I could get the wood into smaller pieces that will fit in the forge it might be plausible

Another problem I'm running out of wood, also the burning down part takes longer to do than my forge burns and I've lost 2 shovles to the fire more or less the handle

I think I have found a new supplier on Craigslist. .50 cents a pound bitounimous

Turns out I'm not buying coal from them to expensive

they have the specs on it.

i have to call them tomorrow. and wait a week to order

As Received Specs:
Size:  Pea 1 x 3/8 or Nut 3 x 1 1/2"
Moisture: 1.48% 
Ash: 7.12% 
Sulfur: .75% 
BTU/lb: 14,373 
BTU/lb: 15,724 (dry, ash-free) 
Volatile Matter: 18.63% 
Fixed Carbon: 79.62% (dry ash-free) 
Free Swelling Index (Coke Button): 9 
Lbs sulfur per million BTU: 0.52 
 

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it an actual coal company up north

That's a good number I found some for 15 dollars a bag and if I buy 9 - 50lb bags for a $135 I'll be set no more wood

Thanks for that I shall read it but another question to those who use coal bitoniumus, how long would 500 lbs last if you say use the forge for like once or twice a week and then on the weekends

Not to bust your bubble or anything but I'm done with the hair dryer days I just need one that is not over kill

Guys question if I converted this to electric what cfm rating would you have me go with.

My old man helped me make it and that's only after the first day I didn't get a photo of the second day of work.

I might have to convert it to a hand crank don't know yet. Depends on the fan  but it's at just the right height for me