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  1. On 9/14/2018 at 8:02 AM, MotoMike said:

    Looks functional.  Not sure what you mean by straw color, ... forge temps more commonly described with reds, oranges, yellows.  

    Straw= yellow. I don’t have all the lingo down yet, but working on it. 

    On 9/13/2018 at 11:37 PM, stevomiller said:

    If your firebricks are from hardware store I’m pretty certain they aren’t insulating type, your forge will really gobble a lot of full. I’d swap them out when you are able to. Also keep an eye on your blower, the ones I’ve had like that weren’t long lived.

    They are not an insulating brick, this was just a quick throw together forge, I plan on turning a grease drum into a forge insulated with kaowool and lined with refractory.  The blower has been sitting around our house for a long time, only getting used when kids have friends over to blow up the air mattress. I have an old canister vac to replace it if it dies. 

     

  2. Grade R is the common hose that is rated for acetylene only. Grade T, the hose I have, is rated for propane or acetylene. The gauges are useable on both fuels. The only time I have used acetylene is when I was in school. I prefer the way that an oxy/propane torch cuts, and the only time I had to do oxy/fuel welding was at school. 

  3. So I wanted to start out small and inexpensive. I built a low pressure burner based on the YouTube video by Christ Centered Ironworks. Instead of buying the regulator, i am using my Victor cutting torch regular and my T grade hose(planning on getting a short hose just for the forge). The stand is from a table that the local library threw out. The rest of the metal was from the scrap/drop rack. I “borrowed” the air mattress blower, which works excellently. 8B958380-3349-4867-B822-46574FC8A656.thumb.jpeg.f5341d7b9e4b5174984ab9e440be4252.jpeg6F4506FC-BD6B-4574-AD00-B52481B46DD2.thumb.jpeg.f2154ee6b60e391d01fdd1e0e1721c6b.jpegThe local hardware store only had 8 firebricks, so the remaining 3 bricks are on order. I fired it up today, and using 2psi of propane and 3/4 open air, got a horseshoe to straw color in about 5 minutes. D29205A5-87B2-4F59-933E-8A308F18F321.thumb.jpeg.9d101467ae2f58425705840c1d056c5b.jpeg

  4. 1 hour ago, ThomasPowers said:

    Somehow I can't see how throwing away about US$500 is only looking at the bottom line; I would rather factor in some "lack of intelligence".  Like when a NYC family was developing a farm near my house in NJ and bulldozed and burned the barn---which was made of chestnut and black walnut and was over 150 years old...I told them that they could have sold it to a company that recycles barns for around US$50K.  They turned a bit green.   I did salvage 1  2"x12" 10' long of black walnut with hand forged nails in it. from the burn pile.

    This was buried in a pile of rotten hay and the collapsed roof.  I was able to salvage most of the lumber in the house- true 2x’s in the entire house with balloon framing-20’+ boards.  There weren’t many solid boards put into the burn pile. Lots of elm saplings, shake shingles, and a ton of trash that the last tenants left. I’m surprised that the anvil was still there, as every scrap of metal was ripped out of there(too many meth-heads around here). 

    I will get the serial # when I get home. I will probably have to grind the numerous layers of paint and junk off to even see the stamping- took 20 minutes to just clean off the side to see the markings. 

  5. This anvil followed me home from a job cleaning up an old farmstead. I haven’t built a stand yet, but this tub is knuckle high. I got to keep anything I wanted from there while I was tearing everything down. :(  Too many absentee landowners that are just looking at the bottom line. Everything I didn’t want was pushed into a pit and burned. Then it was covered over with topsoil and will be farmed in the spring.

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