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Josh Topham

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  1. Hi, I fired up my homemade coal forge for the first time today - it was not a great success. I have an old steel sink lined with foundry cement, with a leaf blower piping air through the plughole. The whole thing is outdoor and on a wooden frame. I'm burning house coal. My biggest problem is that the fire is quite out of control. Once it's properly lit I can only run the blower for about 30 seconds before thumb sized, white hot coals start blowing into the air. I've tried to weight the smaller, lit coals under bigger fresh ones but the whole thing is so hot within a minute everything is on fire and the showering fireballs resume. This is my second problem: in all the videos I've seen of coal forges there is a firey core beneath a layer of cooler coals. In mine everything on top just burns like a bonfire. Every time I bury the fire it burns back through. All this is meaning I spend most of my forging time messing with the fire and putting out bits of the surrounding shrubbery. The only actual metal work I accomplished today was slightly tapering some rebar.... I've got a couple of books and have googled, but everything I've seen just kind of says "light the forge." Any beginners advice would be massively appreciated.
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