scottwbriscoe Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Just joined the forum, but I've been lurking for months. Thank you all for all of the information posted here! I've been doing research for several months and just finished the forge body itself. I've got a few wraps of kaowool with high density fire bricks on the inside of that and two Ron Reil style 3/4" burners with the TWECO tip mod (0.030 tips). Forge body is probably a bit overbuilt as I made it out of 1/4" diamond plate. I need to put a choke on the burners but wanted to do a test fire to check out whether it worked first. You can tell I'm not a welder, but the main goal was to have a working forge. I've still got to put the legs on and the work rests on the front and rear. I started blacksmithing about two years ago on a home built solid fuel forge. It's tough to source affordable coal where I'm at and I got tired of the sparks and difficult regulating temperatures with hardwood lump charcoal. Can't wait to start using this forge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Latticino Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Looks good so far. Ensure burner flare is outside the fire brick layer (at least), or they will burn up faster than you expect. Hopefully you used split fire bricks (1/2 thickness) as that much full fire brick will be a sizable thermal mass and take longer to heat up. Pretty bullet proof though, and some applications (like hammer making) work well with more thermal mass to draw on when introducing new stock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 19 minutes ago, scottwbriscoe said: Forge body is probably a bit overbuilt as I made it out of 1/4" diamond plate. Overbuilt maybe, but definitely stylish! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 7 hours ago, scottwbriscoe said: Just joined the forum I always suggest this thread to get the best out of the forum. https://www.iforgeiron.com/topic/53873-read-this-first/ BTW: Welcome and it looks like your gasser will work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottwbriscoe Posted March 14, 2018 Author Share Posted March 14, 2018 Latticino I used whole firebricks. I decided to build with local materials and figured I'd see how these performed. Hopefully they're not too much of a heat suck. Thanks JHCC! Added my location Irondragon. Thanks for the link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(M) Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 maybe cut them in half? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 No need, split fire brick is common, anybody selling full will have splits. Welcome aboard Scott, glad to have you. Full fire brick is a serious heat sink and poor insulator that will require more fuel to bring up to temperature and more to keep at temperature. It's only slightly better insulation than an equal thickness of lime stone. R value is based on limestone, R1 = 1' of limestone. Nice looking build. I don't knock over built, sometimes you need overbuilt. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikey98118 Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 Maybe, change out the .030" MIG tips for .023" tips, or maybe not. Your flames are reducing, but only just. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottwbriscoe Posted March 19, 2018 Author Share Posted March 19, 2018 (edited) Turns out I did buy split fire brick, locally no one carries any full fire brick. That's nice at least. Thanks Mikey for the suggestion. *edited for poor spelling. Thank you all for the comments, this forum has been a gold mine of information. Edited March 19, 2018 by scottwbriscoe edited for poor spelling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikey98118 Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 You're welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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