January 12, 201016 yr Hi all- I'm a newbie. I have been wanting to get into blacksmithing for along time. I now have started building a forge. I have about 10 hours into it now. I'm trying to get the duraboard and a few other parts ordered from Larry Z. Hopefully I'll start on the burners this weekend. Thanks for sharing so much info its been a BIG help.
January 12, 201016 yr Author this is a link to the pics i took while building my forge. Most of the design came from zoellerforge.com. (Thanks Larry!) http://s997.photobucket.com/albums/af98/elkhvac/Building%20my%20first%20forge/
January 12, 201016 yr Nice fab job. You are going to have some serious heat in there with three burners!! Cheers
January 13, 201016 yr Author Thanks Rob, I wanted to make sure I could get the guy up to welding temp :P
January 15, 201016 yr I think that 3 burners might be too much for that forge. I have a one burner and at 5-6 psi I am at 1923 deg. 15 psi I am easly at 2300.I could go higher, but I didn't want to burn my thermalcoupler out. Point being I think your going to have trouble without overfiring the iron. Martin
January 15, 201016 yr Author I think that 3 burners might be too much for that forge. I have a one burner and at 5-6 psi I am at 1923 deg. 15 psi I am easly at 2300.I could go higher, but I didn't want to burn my thermalcoupler out. Point being I think your going to have trouble without overfiring the iron. Martin I have taken the into consideration. My forge will have 700 cubic inches so two burners i feel would have been marginal (i am building the burners myself). The burners will be independently controlled so i will be able to run it on one, two or all three burners depending on the heat required. thanks for the input Gary
January 15, 201016 yr Gary, Which burner design are you using? Yeah the independent will help you have control over the temp. I didn't realize that was what you were doing. By they way the forge does look really nice. Martin
January 17, 201016 yr Author Gary, Which burner design are you using? Yeah the independent will help you have control over the temp. I didn't realize that was what you were doing. By they way the forge does look really nice. Martin Thanks Martin- I'll be building 3 sidearm burners for the forge. It should get to temp fairly quickly.
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