TheCowBear

Mikey, thank you there was definitely confusion there. A couple places have said not to use your burner as a torch and I was trying to decide if this qualified as using it as a torch.

The burner pipe is 8” long with a 3/4” interior diameter. I did butter the wool before spraying with the rigidizer, but I didn’t have a torch big enough to heat the inside to red hot so I just let it dry on its own, will that be a problem? I will keep all of this in mind when I eventually build new burners.

My bad. The burners say 1 1/4-304. I didn’t build them, they came with the square forge that I bought off of KSL so I’m not sure how the gas jet was made. I going make it more of a D shape by making the Kastolite a bit thicker in the center on the bottom so it ends up with a floor that is less curved.

Thank you and here are more pictures 1) is the set up without the burners attached (excuse the clutter please) and 2) is the burner inside the "T" I did read the first few pages of the Forges 101 thread, guess I didn't make it far enough. I'll remedy that. Frosty, I do have enough blanket to reline it, I don't know if I'll have enough Kastolite. But the main problem is that it isn't quite wide enough to make some of the tools I was making. I could turn them on the diagonal but they still caught and tore some of the refractory cement off. I will probably still reline it if I have enough clay, but I would need to halve the suggested thicknesses of the blanket and clay. Thanks again

I've been attempting to blacksmith for a couple years now and this is the forge I started with: It had these burners: I have since built this: After reading a decent portion of the burners 101 topic I think the burners I have will work ok for the new forge, but I was wondering 1) how to make them more efficient and 2) the best way to mount them without having access to a welder? I haven't found much on the forum about physically mounting burners just about angles and depths, but not ways to attach them. That might be a failure of my search skills, so sorry if that is the case and this specific question has been answered a billion times. I am planning on adding Kast-O-Lite 30 to the new forge, but one of the forums said to drill holes for burners before doing that step so I'm posting before doing that part. I did add blue rigidizer but it looks like it may have drained all the way out. My shop is 50 min south of where I live and I haven't been able to check since I was sent these pictures. My goal with the new forge is to be able to use it to forge weld and heat treat as finances to build multiple styles are limited. Any other suggestions y'all have in regards to the build would be grand as well. Thanks in advance.