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Here's my fur factory does not make it out to the workshop anymore but demands to inspect any tools or projects I bring back with me.

Thanks for the info. There are a good amount near Chicago just with us being closed down our discretionary spending has been frozen so they tend to disappear before we can get a hold on them. It was a vice I happened to see as part of an offering did some looking and IFI popped up some results that it was used, but no details on usefulness outside of its specific design.

Yeah 350 is a lot and the more I look I see he has other stuff on offer at closer to a reasonable price just spread out in 15 different offers instead of a complete list. I keep looking, but end of the day its someone elses final decision and not my money as bad as that sounds I can only make recommendations to them.

One of our experienced smiths is taking back equipment he lent to the workshop and helped us find some replacements. One of the items was our leg vise we found a seller for what I can tell is a 6" ACME 112# leg vise for $350 which is similar to the of one we had. Looking around I found the same seller has a B. B. Noyes caulking step vise for $550. I know the caulking vise is a combo farrier/blacksmith vise, but if there is no farrier work is there a usability or feature difference between the two? Both are refurbished and work fine though I have not verified that just what's stated in the ad. Basically should I go with the leg vise or the caulking vise for general blacksmithing.

I did its why I said I was switching back to the old design since it uses less refractory so I can do one order. The original question was answered hence why I went elsewhere with the thread. I tried to throw a little humor I apologize for it.

The main points of this thread have already been discussed and figured out at this point its just a convo so the effort to make it sensical was deemed not a priority. I apologize if I have wasted you time after the thread had fulfilled its purpose.

The ones out here at least some state they have sales setup for building pizza ovens and other small operations for individuals. I wasn't planning one bag if I could buy direct as I have other projects I can use the stuff for. Some of them did respond to my inquiries and some didn't the ones who did just stopped responding. I do find it strange anymore how hit or miss the online contact is from industry to industry. My don't make my parents disappointed job we are very quick to respond to them, but I have had other cases where they never did.

They did not come up in my search thanks for the info I'll have to look into them for the next one.

Its not in chicago i think its between here and cincinnati I believe, but yeah I had that same thought when I started looking for supplies. I always try contacting ahead to see minimums and packaging so I know what to expect and if I can move it they just never responded to me after 3 or 4 inquiries I stopped trying. Allied did actually contact be back but bounced me over a few departments then stopped responding. So yes its available in the area, but for some reason they are being difficult and after dealing with that kind of stuff at my tell people about job got tired of it sucking the joy out of something I enjoy. We do have smaller suppliers for lower heat and durability stuff, but this kind of thing would like welding heat available and some durability. I did go back to the other design either one would work. Like I said there are a lot more variables working with newbies upto experienced smiths plus no specialty makes me wish I was just making one for myself would be a whole lot easier of a process.

Yeah the K-26. My old design was using a 7 gal air tank in the same style as the propane tank forges here in IFI. The problem I ran into with that design was for some reason no one locally unless this post diggs someone up sells high temp/durability castable refractory. If it was my money to spend sure I would pay double to ship it, but not feasible currently. We have a few producers/distributors near here who say they do small quantity, but they either wont respond to me or stop talking to my part way through. So I switched to the firebrick box knowing its not durable, but we can easily replace it when we need to. Thanks for the ITC info usually when I peruse through here I forget to check the dates when google brings me over so most of them about it must have been older. Plistex was my second go to, but I haven't heard of Matrikote at least that I remember ill go look into that. I might still have enough Mizzou left over from making the burners that I can do a half face on the 7 gal with insawool 2in thick. with very rough estimate brings it to a chamber of 462in3.

At this point I doubt it will I've been debating having a larger opening, but it's a fight between length vs width and height to keep the chamber at an efficient size. The problem is the skill levels are all over the place. We have some who have been forging probably before I was a gleem in my parents eye to those just beginning. My eventual goal once capital is available is to have a couple different sized forges like we used to. But thanks for the clam idea our old one has it but its basically warped shut so have been ignoring it.

Hello all I am currently in the design process for building a new forced air ribbon burner forge. I have the specs for the most part finalized, but I wanted opinions on the chamber size if its to big (or highly doubtful to small). Its current iteration is 5"H x 8.5"W x 18"L with 2.5" 2600f fire brick plus a bottom plate of .5" Mizzou. The chamber size is 765in3 the burner is a 3" by 12". There will be an itc100 lining as well plus some shielding for the brick, but haven't nailed that decision yet. I know this question gets brought up a lot, but what makes it difficult for me to figure out size is this forge is for a hacker/makerspace so its uses are across the board. Plus we just got our own MZ75 power hammer so metal size isn't limited to hand forgable.