Let's see your forge doors

[plain ol Bill]

I am building a new gas forge w/ a ribbon burner. I want to put some good doors on it front and rear rather than just blocking with fire brick. How did you do your doors?? :huh:

[edge9001]

here is the doors on mine...
open and closed to give you an idea of the design. I find it works very well only with the depth of the chamber I've found I need a brick floor to raise the work up to the opening. I will probably make a few changes to it in the future.

[Frosty]

I use fire brick instead of doors. Heck, you couldn't put doors on my gasser and keep it's practical aspects. It's a variable geometry/volume design you can shange the size and shape of the chambers as necessary.

Frosty the Lucky.

[Sweany]

http://farwestforge.com/Forum/bsgview.php?photo=3280&cat=&by=Sweany

The door doesn't close the forge completely, it leaves about 2" open for small stuff, open the door for larger items....

[Mainely,Bob]

Thanks for the link Sweany.
I bookmarked it as there is a ton of stuff I can use on it to include all those really great scaled down gas forges.You are one REALLY inventive guy!
Thanks for posting and inspiring me.

[Pat Roy]

When I saw the title of this thread, I thought we were talking about "Doors".
This is one of mine, still not hung.

[petere76]

Pat,

Nice job on that door, looks great.

[chyancarrek]

Ditto to Frosty here -

I've got a variable volume gasser that just uses bricks stacked in different configurations

[Frosty]

Ditto to Frosty here -

I've got a variable volume gasser that just uses bricks stacked in different configurations

Basically the same thing I built if you put the lid on a jack. I do recommend a trailer jack though, I used the scissor jack because I had it.

Frosty the Lucky.

[chyancarrek]

Basically the same thing I built if you put the lid on a jack.

Frosty the Lucky.

Frosty
Yeah, I wish I'd seen your design before I built mine . . .
I like yours better - more "makes sense" in my mind

I copied mine from a design I saw at Ponderosa Forge in Sisters Or.
Mine's supposed to have a counter-weighted cantilever set up to raise and lower it but I got as far as you see in the pic then put it to work - someday I'll finish it up!

Ok, Ok, I'm done with my thread hijack . . . back to our regularly scheduled programming . . .

[Dave Hammer]

I've made several forges with moving metal (some lined, some not) doors. Seemed like a good idea at the time. The problem I had was that, over time, the heat would warp, and/or deteriorate them.

I choose to use firebrick to keep this from happening. I also need to be able to move my forge out of the way easily.

These photos show the method I use today on my forges. 3 inch channel iron, welded on the end of the forge. It allows me to put the forge on a pedestal and easily move it... Soft brick is EASILY cut with a hand saw of any type.

[Mainely,Bob]

Sweet lookin` forge there Dave.
Simple,straightforward design and it looks to be very versatile.
I have the pics bookmarked for future use.Thanks for posting them.

PS-what does the base look like?