Dueldor

Well that’s good because I am forever tinkering and designing. Can’t wait to start learning and making!

LOL! Had not even thought about startup. Maybe just sticking with a thermocouple and playing with gas/air flow rates to increase or maintain temps? Or this could all just be a concept that winds up in the round file receptacle. Was thinking it would be nice if I got into forge welding to be able to set the max temp and not overheat the metal and wind up with a useless puddle or a sparkler display lol! I do plan to build a heat treat oven eventually as well anyways so maybe the temp controlled forge is a moot point. Things to consider, thanks Frosty!

Wow so was totally not getting my notifications that there were replies lol. That spam folder is a black hole just sucks in whatever it wants. Yea I’m not going to hook the pid to the blower as well. I thought about it cooling the forge, but at those temps I’m not thinking the air is going to have enough cooling effect to really hurt it as well as it’s going to warm coming into the forge right? Also it seemed to me that keeping the air moving inside the forge would be advantageous as well. Would be nice if I could work it to have the gas solenoid shut off and then a delay of a few seconds and then the blower shut off as well, but unless someone can help me design a pid capable of such and help me understand how to make it go I don’t see that happening lol.

This will be forced air ribbon burner. Thinking of installing an electric shutoff solenoid. For both safety and temp control. I’m considering wiring the solenoid to a pid/ssr setup to control temp as well as should power go out for whatever reason the gas is immediately shut off as well. It sounds as though I shouldn’t really have much to worry about though as far as burning the component.

Sorry 250f. Ribbon burner 6” long 3” wide horizontal placement at the top of the forge so that it enters on the round already to swirl. So is vertical placement the only time the chimney effect happens. I figured with having the burner horizontal but at the top it would create the same issue. Sorry if I’m not explaining myself well. Words are not always my strong suit lol.

Hey folks tried searching google and here to see if I could find anything on what temperatures can “chimney” out the burner of a cooling gas forge but came up empty. Has anyone done any testing to see what kind of temps can backfeed? Looking at a couple components that have a max temp rating of like 250* and want to make sure I’m not going to melt or warp or ruin anything. Thanks folks!

Awesome! Thanks fellas!

Ok so I found my blower. Now I just need to find a reducer from the blower to my piping. 2-3/4” od of blower to 2” od of piping. Anyone have suggestions on where I might find a suitable reducer? Or possibly another option? Thanks for all the input everyone!

Sounds good. Thank you.

Hi all. I am currently building my first forge and I’m having a hard time finding a blower that I like for it. With my setup I am running 1-1/2” pipe into the ribbon burner. I found a couple blowers but one is only 75 cfm and then the next one up jumps to 272 cfm. Nothing in between. Thoughts? Forge is a 20# LP cylinder. [Commercial links removed]

Thanks. Does that mean that they act the same as well? I would assume so or they would interchange them right?

Yea I guess with a lot of tool manufacturers going to synthetic or metal handles wood handles are kinda phasing out. Thank good ness there are some who still use wood. I will have to check out some other tool handles I can modify. Sounds like a solid plan.

Hey all so I am curious where you all in the states source your hammer handles/handle material? Prefer hickory for its shock absorbing properties.