Ali Ahmed Khan Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 I was wondering if I could use home made charcoal briquettes as a fuel for a forge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 You could certainly use homemade charcoal (see the various threads about making it), but briquettes (which are usually a combination of charcoal and binder, compressed with special machinery) are probably more trouble than they're worth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 Most commercial briquettes have a fairly low percentage of charcoal and a lot of binder/anthracite/clay/etc so making your own is going backwards from a good fuel used for forging for several thousand years to a bad fuel only used when there is nothing else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLAG Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 JHCC, Forgive me for being somewhat pedantic. But here goes. Many brands of briquettes (most?) are made of sawdust, glue and a black dye. YECH !!. Some years back a fellow demonstrating at a blacksmith get together, used briquettes nd actually get the forge hot enough to forge weld some. But it was a stunt and a struggle. I suspect that he uses coal, charcoal, or gas to smith. JHCC is correct. You can make charcoal from scrap wood using a home made retort. And that information is here. Is coal readily available in Abu Dhabi? Where does it come from. Is it very expensive? Also, I suspect that saw dust is not readily available! But propane gas should be very reasonable. I just noticed that Mr. Powers posted a reply whilst I was typing this entry. Sorry, then, for any redundancies. Wish I could see the new Louvre which just opened. SLAG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 Just now, SLAG said: Forgive me for being somewhat pedantic. Who am I to criticize someone for being pedantic? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLAG Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 Mr. JHCC, Brilliant response. Thank you. SLAG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 Well you could suggest he be excessively pedantic.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 2 minutes ago, ThomasPowers said: Well you could suggest he be excessively pedantic.... You need a comma after "Well". Unless you meant "Well" to modify "could", in which case, no problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 My wife does my punctuation correction, thankyouverymuch! (She is on her way to our northern abode right now and I'm in a foreign country...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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