Frosty

It is just an anvil

The answer to the prayers is YES this time Woo Hool! Not going to stop till you geedt back up to speed and start posting again. Be well Brother Frosty The Lucky.

Welcome aboard Bacus, glad to have you. The post you're replying to is about 4 1/2 years old. That's okay though, good information if good information. Do you have something to tell us about how to select one over the other? We're all pretty well versed in "it depends" as an answer, what it depends on is always something to store in the old files. How is summer going down there? We're in the grips of a cold snap here though it's climbed all the way to 1f for right now, we're supposed to get another good dump of snow Saturday and Sunday. It was -24F @ 1am this morning a few degrees colder last night. -20 is where the F and C scales cross. Frosty The Lucky.

If we're calling room temp 70f then it's actually 295.2611K where the atoms play. Frosty The Lucky.

Sideblast trench forge like a JBOD (just a box of dirt), the blast an inch +-off the bottom. Corn has a lot of oil in it so it'll have an odor that may be pretty strong. Frosty The Lucky.

I don't need a corn forge to brag about insanity. Frosty The Lucky.

No, boiled linseed oil is a polymerizing oil, it turns to gunk itself. Plain old moor oil 30wt is a little thick but okay. You can even use "3 in One" though its a little light. Ah! I just checked back a little farther in the thread and see you want to use BLO on the vise rather than to lubricate the screw. Protect vise GOOD, lube om the screw BAD. Penetrol is good stuff. Frosty The Lucky.

Who claimed they were rated to 2,500f and having "alumina" in them doesn't mean much of anything. High alumina has very little chemistry in common with standard fire brick. Even though they're fragile they don't break up with thermal cycling. Next time try a furnace supply / repair service. If they don't sell them they will know who does. I'm thinking you got snookered or the guy you bought them from just didn't know. You're changing too many things instead of fixing one at a time. The length of time and number of steps increase exponentially building, trouble shooting, etc. problem solving in general. Frosty The Lucky.

Plain light firebrick is NOT high alumina, that's why flux dissolves it like hot water on a sugar cube and they break up after a couple firings. The old ones are rated for about 1,500f. My old too large shop forge literally melted them. Morgan Thermal Ceramics has been around for maybe a century and the K-26 has been industry standard for a couple decades, they're actually THINK I have a few in a box in the shop if you want. Lose the firebrick on the forge floor. PERIOD! All a firebrick in a propane forge does is take up a gallon of propane to heat to forging temperature and make a nasty gooey mess if you get a borax based welding flux in it. That's a pretty fancy burner mount, I kind of like it even though I'd use my old stand buys. Tinkering and messing with metal just because is very Blacksmitherly Frosty The Lucky.

Oooh, that's cool but is it a tack light? Frosty The Lucky.

While it can work, it's not particularly good solid fuel, you'd do better to buy or make charcoal but seeing as where you live by metallurgical coal. Frosty The Lucky.

Oh just build a steel tripod and forget all the recurring PITAs. No, there is NO good reason to put a steel plate under the anvil, I used 2" angle iron flange up to make a rim the anvil just slipped into and made my hammer racks to they drove between the anvil's foot and flange. Just bare steel stand to anvil, the differences in resonant frequency damps any prolonged ring. Plain old ear plugs is plenty. Frosty The Lucky.

OUCH, the essential craftsman forge and burner is straight out of a book from 30+ years ago. I had higher hopes for NARB but it mostly makes even heat rather than HIGH heat. Save it for heat treating. You'll want something better than baling wire to mount the burners. They don't need to be (welded solid) mounts but they do need to resist movement or falling off. Having a lit torch rolling around on the bench is a B A D N E S S THING. Below is a club, clinic burner and forge build. The firebrick is Morgan K-26 insulating firebrick. it's powered by a 1/2" T burner with thread protector step flares. The door baffles would've been K-26 but they were special order and like al projects planned by committee there were a lot of WTFs? in the finished forges. Just for reference the volume was around 170 cu" and the forge in the picture has burning for less than 5 minutes. I don't recall but the cost was about $100 including the propane regulator and hose. The club got a great break when we bought 30. We kiln washed them with a zirconium ceramic product located and purchased by the same guy who got the regs. Frosty The Lucky.

Beautiful blades Daniel. Yeah, somebody has to come up with another buzzword to make their products stand out. I tend to disregard marketing hype and noise. Tactical seems to be the hot buzz word, I can't buy a small LED flashlight or head light without half a dozen tactical settings. Seriously, WHAT ON EARTH do I need a head light that flashes rapidly. Nobody has ever accosted me in my wood shed or looking under the hood of a vehicle. Maybe if everybody on Iforge and elsewhere started using "Practical" instead it'd catch on? I know I'd much rather have a practical knife than a combat knife unless I'm facing combat in which case I want a Practical Combat knife. How are things going for you in Thailand? I haven't heard much about the country in the news. Been below zero F. here for a couple weeks, then it warmed up to 12f above and snowed about 14" over 2 days. It's below zero again and supposed to snow again Friday and Saturday. Forecast says it'll be -20f or colder Saturday and Sunday. Copd makes cold air especially hard on me, I have to put a double thickness of scarf over my mouth and nose or I'm hacking for a couple days. Deb and I have been thinking of moving south for a few years now but Alaska has so many good options for living here. <sigh> Frosty The Lucky.

Sorry if I came across so short, I had a lot going on when I replied. -20f, Dead pickup w/plow, snowing hard and a fretting wife. We were supposed to get 2-4" of snow, then 3-5" and this morning I've got about 14" with the promise of serious snowfall today / tonight. Woo HOO! It's been a good 4 years since we got enough snow to need plowing, now It's looking like a 5yd loader would be nice. Heck the current weather said we have 2-3 more low fronts blowing in from over the pole. I might not be spending much time online for a while. I don't mean to be making excuses but weather makes them for you. Later. Frosty The Lucky.