caotropheus Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 Build out of scrap material I had laying around, just bought the brake rotor at the scrap yard ($2) and the 4mm mild steel plate for the table. The ruler is 40 cm long and sorry for the lousy welding. By the way, this was the "light sabre" I used to cut the metal... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 Looks like it works, though you need the fuel higher so that piece is thrust into the pile not on top of it. A couple of fire bricks around the rim helps a lot as you can configure them to let the piece in but keep the charcoal from spreading wide. One other suggestion, rig up a flip or swivel cap for the ash dump---the rthreads will get very cruddy pretty fast making it a pain to use a threaded cap. (Did that with one of my early forges, never again!) "Best way to get better welding is to weld!" a welding friends comment on my welding---he then gave me 40 pounds of rod so I guess he wasn't impressed with my welds... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marksnagel Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 Nice job on the forge. I agree with Thomas about the fire being deeper. Really nice table too. Mark<>< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caotropheus Posted February 28, 2011 Author Share Posted February 28, 2011 Thank you very much for your replies. About the fuel depth, this was the first fire I lit for the picture. The pile of fuel I use is higher and always generously covers the piece I am heating. The forge works really well and the rod shown is a piece of round stock 12 mm, was red cherry in about half a minute. Now I am building small "gates" to close unused gaps I left in the frame surrounding the table top. The table top is 70 cm long x 50 cm wide Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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