Ernie42141 Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 Team has anyone built/used a forge powered by natural gas. I dont6know if it burns hot enough or requires forced air or what. Just wonder if I could get by this way to quit buying propane. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzzkill Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 Suggested reading: http://www.iforgeiron.com/topic/44420-propane-vs-natural-gas-forges/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 or you can look into the commercial johnson gas forges as were used in most middle schools' metal shops when I was attending them. How large of a gas pipe do you have access to? I had friends who used to blow glass using NG but they had a large high pressure service rather than the typical house one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy98 Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 I came across this discussion on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bladesmith/comments/4wmdhf/first_forge_question_chimney_bricks_or_some/d6fc3cm ...the poster there runs a NG forge off a BBQ line with regular residential pressures. It's a blown forge, and he uses a furnace air-inducer motor that can be speed controlled with a simple dimmer. He has some details and photos in his post, but what it seemed to boil down to is for him hooking NG into a regular blown burner config worked great, no extra-special high pressure NG line, not even plugged direct into a 1" pipe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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