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Hi Frosty! Thanks for your advise. The idea about kaolin clay sounds good. I'll take a look around here to see where I can buy it. Is it a common thing to find at your location? Besides, when welding metal in the forge, what's the temperature the bricks and the wool will have to stand? Enjoy your weekend!

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Hi all! Thanks for your replies. I'm still coming back from my holidays (Carnival ehehehe) , so I'll post my comments today later. ;-)

Hey guys! Thanks for the reception and for your reply! Unfortunately, it's virtually impossible to get ITC-100 from a local supplier here in Brazil. Importing from an US dealer would have a prohibitive cost to me. So I think I will have to live without it (at least for the time being). I'm thinking about either using the mortar without such coating directly over fibers or building a forge only with fire bricks. I've found some resources about forges built this way, however if instructions are available, I can't find a word about the results in production. Do you think that the mortar will suffer in such way that I should not even try to use it over fibers without ITC-100? On the other hand, perhaps fire bricks will stand the high temperature, what do you think? Regards, --Ivan

Hi all! My name is Ivan and I'm from Brazil. I'm building my first gas forge and fortunately I was able to find out this forum. There are heaps of information here, but I still have a doubt that I think you more experienced guys will be able to solve easily. I'm following the traditional gas forge pattern, a cilinder with Kaowool inside and ceramic coating over it. Actually it