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The other day I got home from work and fired up the forge. I was able to hamer out a pritty good tong half out of 3/4 round hot rolled steel. I jumped up this morning excited to finally pin a set of tongs together I was proud of. I made my first set down ( sorry if my Termanolagly is off I'm new to this ) made my turn to the right got a few hits in before runing out of heat. Stuck it back in the fire and started cleaning on the other half. Went back to the fire pulled out the steel, yep it's burned not bad but burned. Things just kept geting worse. Finally got them pined and the burned steel came back to haunt me. Finally I gave in,cut the rains off and started a new set out of 5/8 square stock. The first half looks pritty good. The secound half started walking I just shut every thing down and came inside. All in all it was a great day. I was able to hammer steel all day. Now my beautiful wife is frying frog legs and I'm reading this forum Thank you guys for all the hard work y'all do,puting out information so guys like me can improve our skills

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I haven't been able to get any info on the refractory I have. I called the company the person I talked with was less then helpful. The insulator I got the refractory from hasent gotten back back with me with the specifics ( drying cycles and such ) the only thing I know or think I know is it's a industrial refractory used in incinerators. What I was kicking around a simpel Coffey can forge.two pieces of pipe, castable refractory between the two with a T burner i just wanted somthing quick, if I had 30/45 minutes I could go out and bang on some iron. But from what I'm reading fuel consumption and heating time I'm not sure if it's worth it?

The more I read the less I want a gas forge I understand the heat sink what is puzzling to me is why a refractory designed to hold heat in soaks it up? Still learning

I've been reading up on forges 101 and I now have more questions then before I started first im a ways off from building a gas forge. I have a solid fuel forge that works good. Albeit I have nothing to compare to. I was using homemade charcoal,and the time to get to forging temps the heat it puts out heat,and how long it takes to put out the fire had me wanting a gas forge for quick projects. I have found a local coal source and found coal much easer to use. I still want a gas forge but it is no longer a priority first y'all recommend not using heavy wall pipe? I have access to all the heavy wall pipe I need. What are the disadvantages of schedule 80 or 40 pipe? Next the plan I had was to take a 6" pece of pipe and put a 3 " inside that and cast the void in between with a refractory that I got from a buddy. From what I've read y'all don't believe this is ideal to put it lightly. If I was continue with this plan what would be the pitfalls? Lastly for now tell I do some more reading has any on used dixy mortar? I'm not sure the product number right now

Good video thank you

I was able to get a set twist jaw tongs pined together that I use for small flat and square stock. I also made the ugliest bolt jaw tongs you've ever seen, but they work well for bigger stuff.

Howdy my name is Ronnie Landry I'm in Brookeland Texas and I Just wanted y'all to know I would be lurking around try to pick up tips. i set out in this adventure just wanting to build a knife out of a file. I never dreamed what all that meant. I have built 2 knives so far and a few tools to make life easier. Currently I'm obsessed with building tongs. Im 49 year old construction worker not a English major so I'm going to apologize for my spelling and grammar mistakes which there will be a lot