Found my grandpa's old forge.  Now to fix it.

Be really nice if you et the old boy's forge going again. Gives you a link to the past and shows respect!

Gonna try

Great that you get to use the old forge.  How's the blower?  Does it turn and blow air freely?  Once you get it going, you can re-purpose one or both of those nippers into some nice tongs.

Yes the blower turns freely and there is air flow.  I just don't know how much air it's supposed to blow

1 hour ago, Medina2928 said:

Yes the blower turns freely and there is air flow.  I just don't know how much air it's supposed to blow

As long as it supplies enough to feed the fire it's all good. just get it all up and running and then you can fiddle if needs be;

Congrats on the heirloom.  Nice touches your grandfather made with the accent stones.  Shows he had some artistic blood.  The genes went through to your work lad.  

Grandpa would be proud of your work & ecstatic that you are using his forge to build beautiful things!

 

3 hours ago, Medina2928 said:

Yes the blower turns freely and there is air flow.  I just don't know how much air it's supposed to blow

If it works as you say it does, you'll do fine using it.  That's what they were made for...feeding enough air for the forge.

I needed to get some knives heat treated before I go back to work this weekend.  I improvised.  I have a large pear burner.  A good friend runs a brick yard.  He gave me 20 of their bricks that will go to 2500 degrees.  I layedon't the brick into an oven type and there you go, a propane forge.  

mother of invention....  How did it work?

Worked good.  Just had to fine tune the doors  for back pressure.  But I was able to heat treat 5 knives