June 13, 201412 yr HI folks, Made myself a brake drum forge from a truck trailer (semi to you yanks), has a 80mm square tue iron with ash dump at the bottom, the air inlet is 60mm pipe with a reducing flange made to suit my (leaf) blower. The fire pit is formed with clay on top of the 6mm base plate with an old cast iron gutter grate over the tue iron. Also put a clunker breaker/air gate in but haven't welded a flap as such to it yet as I wanted to see how it ran first. Was just using small bits of anthracite coal as I can't get coke easily locally, it worked great, 12mm square too about 30 seconds to get 150mm to nearly melting hot on half blower power and the coal turned to coke easily, by the end of my little session it was running with little flame and no smoke at all. Need to sort out a home for my setup and a chimney if not just to draw the smoke away from me! Made a poker/rake for the forge and a basic s hook. Dan
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