hobby forger Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 greetings everbody im going to be making a trip to the scrap yard this summer here in MN and im going to look for somethings to make a new forge anyone got any ideas as to what i should look for for the firepot, the table and the tool holders. if anyone could give me some pictures to give me an idea it would be greatly apreiciated. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Private Entrance Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Mine is shown below. I admit I'm probably as much (if not more) of a noob as you are, but I was about 4 months ago where you are now, so maybe being closer to the beginning I can help at least a little bit. Take a look at the 55 forge plans. That will probably be my next forge. I just need to find a 55 gal drum for cheap. I pretty much have everything already in parts from my current one. Be creative. You need something to put fire in, something for it to sit on, a way for air to get into the fire, something to provide some air. I used a brake drum from Pic a Part for the fire pot, the cooking compartment from a microwave for the stand, some pipe from Ace Hardware, and a blow dryer from the Goodwill. Total expenditure: about $35. It isn't pretty (my 11 yr old son calls it the ghetto forge), but it works well enough for where I'm at right now. The one thing I want to change is take the box off the right end that I'm using to park my coal reserve and replace it with a rimmed table top sort of set up. I've got a lid from a dead washing machine a friend gave me that I'm going to turn into the table top part. Hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobby forger Posted February 13, 2012 Author Share Posted February 13, 2012 thank you for the picture i might go looking in the scrap yard for some parts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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