JDW84

Well got almost everything together, the only thing holding me out that I don’t like is blower outlet flange is about a half inch offset to lining up. Also the blower to the gearbox needs some spacers between it to keep things from being in a bind. If I’m not mistaken when I took it apart about 2 years ago it had washers stacked in between the blower and the gearbox on the bolts. I’m thinking I’ll make a 3/8 spacer and another gasket to get the 1/2 at the flange going to the tuyere. This should move the flange at the blower over 1/2 into alignment. When I originally took it apart the flange that bolts to the fire pot was broken, and looking at this now it was probably in a pretty bad bind originally. I may use the 2 pieces of the gasket material or make a brass spacer to go in between the blower and gearbox.

The stainless is so thin the razor cuts through it no problem. There’s some similar material that has a little thicker metal in it and it’s a little tougher to handle with the hand cutter.

Yeah these gaskets where they have the stainless in them, does better on something a little harder. The wood gives too much and the gasket kinda starts to delaminate. The lead is soft enough that it won’t damage the punch if you go easy

The faces of my flanges are pretty smooth, I’ll have to see how these gaskets do. Like you said put it all together and then start tightening things down. Humm, I wouldn’t be opposed to leading leaky joints. They do make a non lead alloy for people who like to use metal body filler like they used to do. A high temp Rtv, I do have some loctite sealants too. Just got some hot blueing a few of the bigger original nuts and bolts. I just looked, loctite makes a high temperature putty, but I’d say a good high temperature Rtv would work fine. I know the recirculation line will get hot but shouldn’t exceed what a good sealant can withstand.

No worries, I work on a plethora of things, some pretty old! What are you wanting to RTV?

I need some lead to punch the holes on. I’ll let you know how it turns out when I start putting it together. Don’t care a bit to make up a set for you.

I don’t know what those two extra holes would have been for. I’ve gotten the gasket material, it’s a layered graphite / stainless steel material good for high temperatures. We use it to replace old asbestos gaskets all the time.

Yep, they are there but as far as I know there wasn’t anything in them. There is a bolt that goes through where my finger is, well a counter sunk screw that comes through the back plate and had a nut on the inside under the air diverter plate. Those two holes at the bottom I’m pretty sure didn’t have anything in them.

These? Is there any way to date this thing that you know of?

I wish I’d used flat black instead of the gloss but when I originally started working on this over a year ago I didn’t pay attention that it was gloss I had got. POR-15, a little pricey but good stuff. The gasket material will probably be grafoil material which is a graphite based material that we use quite a bit. I can buy the material or they will probably have scraps they will let me have. They have a machine that cuts them out, I’ll just have to bring them a pattern. Hope these pictures help!

I realize there may be some that frown on me painting it, but I like my things ti look somewhat nice. And I had to cover up the orange paint that was on part of it. The guy I got it from said he got it from a vocational school. I’ve had it awhile but it’s just been setting. I’ve got all new bolts to put it back and should start assembling it soon. Luckily I work in a large factory that has its own gasket shop and I can get new gaskets there. It’s the 6660 I’m out right now but as soon as I get back I’ll take a picture of the piece you are asking about. It’s basically a flat piece that stands out about an 1 from the hole. Could have someone break you one from a piece of 1/4 steel.

I’ve got this same forge, I’ve just taken it all apart and cleaned everything up. I know this is an older thread but I see people are still commenting lol!