LastRonin Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 I've been planning for a while now to rework my brake drum forge. The drum I used is off an old house trailer and has a 13 1/2" inner diameter and a depth of 3 1/2" it just burned too much coal. It helped after a while that I had built up a good bit of coal ash and such filling in thecorners and making it more of a bowk, but it still was too spread out for my liking. I had been given most of a bag of PacoCast 28 li castable refractory and had been planning to use it to make a more restricted and slope sided firepot. Well Friday I gave half of the refractory to a young guy I met who works at the local Walgreen's that is getting into smithing so he could use it to help him get a better forge going than what he described to me. (I've also recommended ifi to him several times.)Anyway, I went ahead yesterday (Saturday) and mixed up some refractory and did what you see in the pic. The top is about 7" x 7" and has about a 50º slope down to about 4" × 4" at the bottom. Did I mess up doing this? What's you guys' opinion?I've already built a small propane forge and do believe my next one will probably be a welded firepot side blast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Probbably not. Just be aware that it will most likely crack at the corners. Shouldt effect anything tho. A 4" deep bt 8" bowl should work just fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LastRonin Posted May 10, 2015 Author Share Posted May 10, 2015 Thank you Charles. Yeah, I expect it'll crack some. Just hoping it lets my fuel efficiency improve. Next project for this is a blower upgrade, rework or mod. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Always glad to sare my oppinian, lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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