I’m mainly a woodworker but I often make my own tools out of annealed O1 tool steel I buy and then I heat treat them with an acetylene torch. I’d like to build something closer to a Forge to use both for heat treating and to try some forging. I don’t have any experience with Forge building other than back when I was a teenage mad scientist I got hold of a large steel artillery shell, drilled a hole in the base and put a blower in it which allowed me to burn a charge of charcoal in it at enormous temperature. Recently the propane heater in my shop went out due to electrical board ignition problems. I put in a new heater but now I’m thinking the burner setup in the old one might be salvaged and converted to a Forge. There are 5 burners with Venturi tubes. The whole unit has a rating of 75,000 BTU. The burners with tubes as well as the regulator can be removed as one piece. It’s spark igniters could be activated manually with an ignition coil. The blower could be salvaged as well. I would use steel plate as a housing.
Does this sound like a workable plan or should I start from scratch?
i will try to post pix of old heater burners