Derek W.

Hey Guys, New here at IFI and new to forging. I've been playing around with a coal forge that I built from an old fire pump housing and bounce house pump for the past couple of months. I just recently almost finished a pair of tongs with it in the snow because I'm tired of burning my fingers off with the channel locks. Other than that, I just like pounding on hot metal. It's become an obsession and is quite therapeutic. I have a pile of RR metal sitting on my garage floor that have been pounded flat and almost resemble something of a knife blade but left to rust because there's no pounding left. I plan on building me the gas forge in the future so I've read this thread over the past two days from front to back and then when I got done I went back a couple of times because I had gotten so consumed in it that I forgot to take notes. I especially enjoyed the piece on "What is Art?". My original plan before reading was to use a propane tank and 3/4 burner. Now I plan to use freon tank with 1/2 burner. Will the length of the nipple remain the same or be shorter due to smaller pipe? I know this a burner ? but literally been reading this thread for the past 7 hours (Slow day at work) so too dizzy trying to get my head wrapped around all the information to read the 35 pages of burners 101 right now. I feel like I've known you guys forever already. Thanks for everything that you do!