New Champion 400 Fire Pot (With Photos)

[Pr3ssure]

So yesterday I went and got a fire pot, it’s a Champion 400. I didn’t have enough money to buy the 400 blower as well but I got the pot with the tuyere for 150 and could have got the blower for about the same. The guy had probably 10 working 400 blowers put up, so I can get one later. I want an electric one anyway, but would like a hand crank for backup/have to complete the whole Champion forge. 

I also got a hot cut hardy for my anvil and 2 pair of v bit tongs, one has broken reins but it will allow me to weld new ones once I feel competent. 

Now I just need to make a table to set this baby in and a blower to power it and I will be setup other than a post vice. Which the guy I went to has at least 15-20 nice ones, some missing springs but most are complete. 

He even let me owe him $25 and took my word I’d get it to him, wonderful man, wonderful smith. 

 

Photos are before fore and after wire cupping the fire pot with grinder. Need to find a way to get rust out of inside of tuyere. 

[Daswulf]

If the vise without a spring is a better deal get one with a good screw and box and make the spring yourself. Not a hard project. 

Hmm.. having that much stuff, and being a really nice guy and smith, in somewhat the area, was it Ed Claypoole? 

[Pr3ssure]

Lol, it sure was. He’s a great guy. Makes me not care he’s the closest smith to me Being a little over an hour away. 

He had a 500lb  Refflinghaus anvil there and showed me pictures of a 700lb one he just had there. The thing was a battleship. 

[anvil]

I'd have jumped on the biggest champion 400 blower he had like a dog on a bone. 

[Daswulf]

I need to get out his way again some time. 

[anvil]

[Pr3ssure]

Yeah, there were a bunch in his shipping container. I actually got the electric blower that was rusted onto the tuyere cleaned up a little and it works. Gotta try and get the cover off the motor but pb blasters no hope if the screws all strip. So it may never come off.