February 3, 20188 yr Picked up this forge recently and I am wondering if anyone knows much about it. I did some googling and couldn't really find any information on the hood, at least that is the only part of the forge tagged with anything. It has hanchett manufacturing with a size 132 tag on it. The blower is a champion model 40. I am sure it will suit me well, i just need to work on finding a source for coal locally now
February 3, 20188 yr Author 5 minutes ago, JHCC said: Very cool. Oh, and welcome to IFI. If you haven't yet, please READ THIS FIRST! Updated my location, in terms of research I really did look for this searching a number of different things but didn't have any luck finding any real information. I am not sure if the forge as a whole is made by this company or possibly just the hood
February 3, 20188 yr Hanchett is still in business, and someone there might be able to help you. Take a look at this comment from 2009.
February 5, 20188 yr Author I tried the email provided in that thread there and got a bounce-back, he must be gone from the company. I sent a general email to their contact us page, we will see if that gets a reply. Still hoping someone on here has seen one of these before and has more info on it.
February 5, 20188 yr Author 47 minutes ago, Irondragon Forge & Clay said: Would love to see a picture with the lid open to get a look at the firebox. I'll get you that tonight, hopefully with a little better quality too.
February 7, 20188 yr Author Haven't heard back from Hanchett, hopefully one day someone sees this and knows a little more about it
February 7, 20188 yr Good Morning, For quite a few people, an e-mail is a bother. They won't answer. Pick up your telephone and call them. If you ask intelligent questions, you most likely will get an interested person. Neil
February 7, 20188 yr And if you don’t find the person with the information you need, make sure to ask, “Whom should I speak with, and when is the best time to call?)
February 8, 20188 yr Author On 2/7/2018 at 10:58 AM, swedefiddle said: Good Morning, For quite a few people, an e-mail is a bother. They won't answer. Pick up your telephone and call them. If you ask intelligent questions, you most likely will get an interested person. Neil Tried that a few times now too, phone rang busy twice now from the google number and can't find anything on their site with an updated number
February 8, 20188 yr Looks like a soldering furnace. The soldering copper would be put in and heated to temp for large soldering jobs. I have seen a few that looked like that that were gas.
February 8, 20188 yr Welcome aboard, glad to have you. Is that an id plackard I see riveted to it? There will be a model or and serial # and probably the patent on it. Exercise your GoogleFu. Use the interForce it is your friend. Frosty The Lucky.
February 8, 20188 yr Author 15 minutes ago, Frosty said: Welcome aboard, glad to have you. Is that an id plackard I see riveted to it? There will be a model or and serial # and probably the patent on it. Exercise your GoogleFu. Use the interForce it is your friend. Frosty The Lucky. Sure is, in the first post I listed the info on that tag, its model 132 and serial number 357. Neither of these plus any combination of hanchett return anything, nor does any hanchett patent search...
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