August 18, 200520 yr Hello, I've got a job comming up that is going to be very repetitive. I'm forging mild steel and some brass pieces that are about 4"x1/4"x3/4" in size and I'm wanting to make a small freon tank gas forge to heat them in. I'm thinking a gas forge will be cheaper with the volume I'm looking to forge. I'm building a Ron Reid burner and I'm thinking one will be enough. But does anybody have a formula for figuring how many burners you'd need for a given area. If this works good I'm thinking about making a big forge for regular forgings maybe a working area of 24"x12"x24". Just depends on how I like the little one.
August 18, 200520 yr From IForgeIron.com > tricks > miscelaneous It takes 450 BTU's of heat per cubic inch of volumn to heat a gas forge. A little math and you can reverse engineer to get your needed propane volumn.
August 19, 200520 yr Also, a Reil burner can generally be relied upon to heat 300 cubic inches to forging heat or 250 to welding heat. Assuming you have a decent regulator, that is.
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