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Here's my gas forge build its made of a 40 dollar air compressor tank. Has two mikey style burners which the kind folks on here have help me improve, and 2 inches of kaowool with rigidzer and refactory. Its inside deminsions are 18 in length 7 inchs wide and tall. I had to order some more refractory and will be finishing shortly.

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If you bevel the forward (large) ends of your burners, so that incoming air can flow past them, the burners will grow more powerful.

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I think I get what your saying bevel out the flare to make a better flare opposed  to the straight shot. There's a machinist near me that i can get to use a lathe and get the inside bevel a bit and i think ill hit him up. I think if i try it won't turn out even. Thanks for the advice.

here is my BIG one, made from a cut in half 20 gallon propane tank. I only use it for large damascus billets and cable. too much of a gas hog for anything else... BUT it will get up to >2400 F that's where my thermometer tops out at...

 

 

My gas forge, made it at a blacksmith club day, where we all got together and made a dozen or so for ourselves.

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I didn't think Australia even knew about things like grass and rain. LOL

I thought it was just the land of NOPEs that try to kill ya!

 

Is that a giant steel plate for a door? it looks like it would be quite a heat-sink. I have firebricks painted with the leftover ITC-100 water after coating the interior of my forge, they reflect the heat pretty good.  

Build day for our gas forges. Hopefully photos are in order.

based on a standard 9kg LPG cylinder, 

 

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Thin sheet rolled into a tube, channel welded back and front for the bricks, 2" wool, ridgidiser, refractory. Decorations like the doors welded on after. 

On 5/18/2018 at 8:46 AM, SwampFox Rocketry said:

I think I get what your saying bevel out the flare to make a better flare opposed  to the straight shot. There's a machinist near me that i can get to use a lathe and get the inside bevel a bit and i think ill hit him up. I think if i try it won't turn out even. Thanks for the advice.

I am not discussing the flare of a flame retention nozzle; why would anyone want to give it a knife edge? I am thinking of the forward edges of your burner's air openings.

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Ok Mikey98118 i did make an inside bevel in the inside of the mixing tube, sorry if im not up to par with jargin only started messing with this stuff recently. 

 Jackdawg thanks for sharing the build and just another Viking love the doors cool touch.

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