bipolarandy Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Fred, i need more pics of your forge please!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Rowe Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Is that a race car engine or a forge? Brian, I am a muscle car era kid and yes the forge was built to give the impression of a "race car engine". With its flame paint job and shiny tubing induction system I can reminisce about my hot rod days while forging a billet. It also sounds hot, when it's running in the 2300fh temperature range. The blower is mounted under the table, below the 3 inch stainless tower. The manifold with the tubes attached is 6" stainless. The last picture shows the wiring "nightmare" hidden under the table. Hope you like the effect, Fred Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLOB Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 here's a couple pictures of my little gas forge. I love the idle circuit.....when the ball valve is closed I have it tuned to idle on aprox 1/2lb pressure....open the valve and its an inferno. I've run it at up to 15lbs (yellow heat, I havent tried a forge weld with it yet) but mainly run it at about 5-7lbs of pressure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bipolarandy Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Dare i ask what all the wires are for???, heres is pic of my heat box, not as shiny, but gets the job done.] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Kelley Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Mine is based on a 7 gallon Walmart air tank. Lined it with 2" of inswool, two thick coats of satanite, and then a coat or two of ITC-100. The forced air burner is a Darren Ellis design. And yes, the blower is attached with duct tape since I have to be true to my humble roots. I was going to come up with a fancier arrangement but the duct tape worked so well I just left it alone. The forge will quite easily reach welding temps on 2 psi. I'm experimenting with smaller venturi burners to see if I can't get it to reliably run at 1500 degrees for heat treating 1084. Latest try was around 1600 so I need to go smaller than the 3/4" sidearm from the last experiment. I also built a small horizontal forge from an old freon bottle that works great for general heating chores. That one has a sidearm burner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucegodlesky Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 This is Big Bertha, half a hot watertank, poured floor and 2" kaowool. Burner by Sweany. Really cooks!! Large volume gives a complete burn. The smaller one I just finished today. 2 R134 tanks joined together, 2" wool, SS ends. Homemade burner. Haven't tried it yet. Built it just for forging. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irnsrgn Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 My unconventional vertical forge. start up; at temp; swinging and raising door and dragon breath deflector on the side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Rowe Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 here's a couple pictures of my little gas forge. I love the idle circuit.....when the ball valve is closed I have it tuned to idle on aprox 1/2lb pressure....open the valve and its an inferno. I've run it at up to 15lbs (yellow heat, I havent tried a forge weld with it yet) but mainly run it at about 5-7lbs of pressure. Excellent idea using the idle circuit. Simple and effective. Fred Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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