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I have a 100cfm ac tuyere fan. It is a 4” diameter hvac booster fan located 10’ from the firebox. 1” pipe with 2 elbows. I doubt it is 100cfm once it reaches the fire. I think it would be more powerful 1’ from the fire. If a solar panel is used for a direct dc fan, running only when sun is out, it will need to be close to firebox with no bends and probably still barely adequate cfm. A battery and inverter will get stronger fan. I have several 150watt+ panels but running direct with no battery is tough. I just run long drop cord to shop. A 200 watt panel and dc direct fan could work if matched correctly.

Palm sap can be up to 20% sugar. Can’t explain blue color but friction and sugar equals thick sticky residue.

Speechless, Easter islandish.

Day off so spent time polishing up hood. Sealed up leaks with high temp silicon after adding 14” pipe a few days ago. Added Thor’s hammer accent to cover hole. Wrapped aluminum flashing and screwed to shroud. Cut harder aluminum and screwed down. Cut another arch. Grinded face accent. Finished ugly greenhorn tongs but they work for thick material. Pounded 1” diameter screw to make hardy hole cutoff. Pounded flat railroad spike. Need to improve hotness to yellow; bright orange is hard day.

At my cabin I have an outhouse. I always check under the seat before I sit down. There are always lots of webs and black widows frequent our area not to mention rattlesnakes.

How about those spiders under the outhouse seat?

What type of saw do you use to cut your metal? For me a reciprocal saw works for rough stuff and a jigsaw for finer work. Most of my jigsaw experience is with wood. Concerning a jigsaw, have you found the finer teeth are better or do you prefer the more coarse? Your edges look smoother on the moon than the sun; different type saw or on purpose?

The eyes look like a sprocket but too deep to be motorcycle?

My day is sunnier now. Funny coincidence, I just got off the phone with my wife and asked her to pick me up some metal cutting jigsaw blades. I wanted to make a mandala out of aluminum scrap to cover up a hole on my hood, my plan was to have very similar arms as your sun. Fine choice on the eyes.

The safest way to carve with a chainsaw is with a "dime tip", very little kickback. A normal chainsaw can be converted with a dime tip bar kit; or what I did is buy a rechargeable stihl chainsaw with a dime tip. Their cheapest model is $300 and works excellent. Get 45 minutes of fun before recharging, by then you are tired.

funny Mr. Powers; an internet smart tv is literally the "eye of sauron". My smart tv has an eye on it that stays on even when it is off. Some, I think, samsung tvs actually warn that it is recording everything in the house. I think all information is fed into a central AI that probably has gone rougue, that is why the world is in the state it is now, aka technological singularity or eye of sauron.

things to meditate on

I also had a bout with video games. Me and my wife used to play Borderlands with split screen for hours; it was full of magic and action, fun. But, I always preferred the outdoors. Hiking the woods as a kid, and trail running now with my wife.

I think my character was a paladin in D&D. I was more interested in painting the miniature metal characters. Then got into building rockets, the hardest skill levels the better, launching them and then the challenge of trying to catch the rocket with parachute before it hits the ground. Good times.

Based on what these senior members have said, adding a lean too to your existing 10x14 shop may be the best idea to protect your health. There is a mountain of knowledge about the risks of CO breathing on this site how it replaces blood oxygen and makes you very sick. But if you decide to go ahead with the indoor gas/coal forge then I would install a hood and alarm gas meter. I would locate the anvil and the hood in a center location far away from walls. Study different hood designs on this site that accommodate both gas/coal, penetrate the roof with double walled pipe to code and extend pipe 3ft above highest point of roof. Cut a 12" circular hole in the floor in between floor joists and insert circular concrete form tube and pour concrete up to floor level for the anvil stand. Mop the floor with borax and/or make an area underneath the hood with thin brick/tiles on hardy backer board with your firepit stacking skills. In Frazer's corner is a nice super sucker design, or a proven larger hood design that works for both forges together. Have an air feeder under the floor up to rear door of gas forge for fresh air. Good luck with your project.

If the floor can handle the weight, use discounted brick and sweep sand in joints. Mortar will crack from hammer blows.

I had a fire going under the hood while I was angle grinding circular openings in it. The grinding disk is well worn. It melted through instead of cut through in many places. Several times even bogged the grinder to a halt. I smelled aluminum fumes! I drank plenty of water and aimed the debris away from my body.

The other day I had to cut 2 openings in a 4ft diameter perforated aluminum hood for my firepit forge. Since the reciprocal saw was causing too many vibrations, I had to use the angle grinder. In the process off cutting/melting through arc cuts I caught many whiffs of aluminum vapor. The next day I was more tired than usual and had less endurance on a run with my wife. Metal fume fever?

Get a metal ball bearing and tape measure, if you get 75% from the rebound test then offer $2.30/lb. If they refuse the offer, then go buy a 136lb chinese steel anvil new for same price. I could not find any used anvils in my area and am happy with my chinese anvil. I started hammering ambidexterous and using the anvil rebound to do most of the work.

Day off from work; forged last half of day. More progress on aluminum fire pit hood. Took solid aluminum center flange that I removed from satellite dish and cut with reciprocal saw to fill in void in hood cone; drilled and bolted this down. For transition from hood to 14” pipe, repurposed old stainless steel smoker and bolted to hood. Cut 2 openings with angle grinder, difficult. Smoothed sharp surfaces too. Buddy will bring over free stainless steel roll to cover perforated aluminum hood in future. Worked more on drawing out reins on tongs. Love larger ball peen hammer ambidextrous. Hood makes hotter fire and less smoke. 14” x5’ pipe will finish project when arrives in a few days. Also sanded djembe drum and played drum. Transferred hot coals to smoker for pork loin. A good day, time for a beer.

Are you are planning to penetrate the roof and install hood and pipe; super sucker? If you are, I am sure the folks on this forum could suggest the best location based on rafter pics, ergonomics and code clearances.

If you go to the home depot website and type in "master flow pipe" , in results you get a whole line of round metal duct pipe from 8" diameter all the way up to 14" diameter that are way cheaper than standard stovepipe in one 5' long piece.

some dogs are even spoiled more.....

Yes Mr Bones, the beam! I saw them with their new band at the gorge amphitheater in washington a few years ago with the new kid taking Jerry's spot; excellent. The beam was always in the "space" section of their concerts, very cool sound.