Sweany

SO, where is the Luchroom? :)

thanks Frosty. 80lbs a yard it is. ***** EWCTool. you must have wanted it pretty bad!

what a minute, how big a boy are ya! 12 ft of rail is pretty hefty. line rail is around 80lbs a foot IIRC

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Why don't you try to burn the coal soot? :)

Congratulations! keep up the good work.

well geee Andrew. This one works well. Don't knock it unless you've tried it.

QUOTE"What we really need to be working on is a coal making machine. . . Caleb Ramsby " Quote we live on a coal making machine... My experience with charcoal is the deeper the better. Mine was fashioned after Tim's but I used wood instead of a washtub. It worked great. I also found wetting the charcoal as you do coal (while the fire is burning) kept the fine sparks down. the Tube type tuyre really works very well I was skeptical at first. Charcoal Forge If you go with the biomass, the added depth of the firepot will increase your charcoal conversion,as new uncharred fuel is added to the top, it is preheated and cooked. I spose a draft hood could induce the cooking gases back into the fire? Personally I'd prefer charcoaling as aseperate event. Seems to me less loss of heat as the conversion is going on. I like Daniels idea and used it succesfully to make charcoal of pine scraps and oak pallets. His use of gasification to fuel the charcoal conversion was very inspireing. I did not use his Kiln of blocks but instead used more brush that needed some usefull way to be gone. Making Charcoal

I like it!

just for fun Steve....

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check this out Saltfork Craftsmen

Bruce Lee does blacksmithing. :)

what divermike said:

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As my old neighbor lady would say. "You'll do better when you know better"

Here's the lin to the MSDS sheets for the ITC products. ITC-100, ITC-200, ITC-213 Ceramic Coatings

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all the forges I have seen with built in ignitors have been in the burner tube just before entering the forge as you have said. there should be little heat there after the ignition as the flow will cool the ignitor. I've seen both the standard BBQ ingitors and sparkplugs used. However the sparplugs have a better coefficient of COOL about them.

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Yep I'm Sweany. good to see ya bro.

Oliver hammer

Welocme. Nice Hammer, did you use a wedge on the handle? Does the sand help the tar hold onto the handle? I never heard of this method before. I'd like to try it.

Thanks Thomas I didn't know that

I've water quenched 5160 like the Kukri makers. You gotta be fast to quench both sides of the of the edge, or you can wind up with one side harder than the other. Check the hardened edge with a file, then temper.