caboverde Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 I think to use this as basic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfrank2015 Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 (edited) Charles R. Stevens Would this work with a hand crank blower with larger pipe? Or would that be too much air when using charcoal. Was thinking of using a hair dryer for now but want to have it set up for hand crank when I can afford it Edited January 3 by Mod34 Removed @ tag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 Welcome aboard, glad to have you. If you put your general location in the header you'll have a chance of meeting up with members living within visiting distance. Sure, that'll work fine. A JABOD is as simple a forge as it gets. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Special Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 Got tired of my modified bottom blast 55-gallon drum forge with charcoal...it works, but it could do better. Started, and mostly finished a JABOD in about an hour and a half. Didn't have any 3/4" pipe laying around, so I'll clay it when I get back from drill next week. Similar to the original JABOD, two-foot box out of 1x8", side-blast with the tuyere about half-way up. Planning to make a tapered trench about four inches wide and seven to eight inches long, with the bottom at the deepest maybe five inches to start (with only 7.5" to the bottom, I don't want to overheat it and catch it on fire!). I had a similar forge in Georgia, but a bottom blast, sort of a duck's nest over a brake rotor, and hood from a small cut down oil drum. Worked well with coal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George N. M. Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 NS, you mentioned attending "drill". Are you a member of the National Guard or Reserve? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Special Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 I'm in the Washington Army National Guard. 9 yrs big Army, 24 years overall, about 15 full-time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George N. M. Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 I did 21 years in the Wyoming Army National Guard. Never a technician, only a weekender. Where does the WANG go for annual training, Ft. Lewis? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Special Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 Depends on the unit. There's some all over the place, but I'm at Lewis when I go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George N. M. Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 I spent about 6 months at Lewis in 1970 as a Training Officer (2LT) with a Basic Trainng Company. I lived is Steilacoom and my unit was on North Fort. I drove around there about 20 years ago and all the WW2 vintange barracks and other buildings we had used were all gone. I really liked the area but I was there in the summer of a dry year. I'm not sure how much I would do in a Puget Sound winter. One of my best friends is in Port Townsend but that is in the Olympic rain shadow. What type of unit are you in? GNM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Special Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 I'm in the two-shop for the HHC of the 56th TIOG. A super-secret squirrel type but it sounds vastly cooler than it is. They don't let me do real work anymore, these days I mostly just show up and try to herd the cats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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