hybridburners, no response?

[Boggster]

i was curious if anyone knew why hybridburners.usa is not responding? i have emailed them twice about wanting to purchase a burner and have not received a response.

[Steve Sells]

Perhaps because many places are closed due to the CornaVirus

[Irondragon Forge ClayWorks]

Have you tried to call them on the phone?  BTW welcome to posting, have you read this yet?  READ THIS FIRST

[Boggster]

i have a few times , not in the last couple weeks though!  i have built burners that work in the past i am just at the point where i want a really good functioning burner that does not need to be modified to work better!!  

 

[Boggster]

i tried calling them again today , there voicemail still says they are closed!

[Mikey98118]

I  think that is a one (and sometimes a two) man operation; things happen. Patience is sometimes needed...

I only know of two businesses that sell first class burners; other one is Chile Forge, and they only sell 1" size first class burners.

[Boggster]

ya, thx for response chiles diablo burners are little more too,  do u know of a place that sells used hybrid burners?  ive been trying to get ahold of hybridburners prolly bout a year now , think ill have to go thru chile.

[Mikey98118]

Only if you're serious about a first class burner. Second class can be pretty nice too. There is a whole wide range of burners, and burner kits for sale out there. How about a little more information on your desires and limits, so we can fine tune an answer that suits you.

[ThomasPowers]

Saturday we were hot cutting some 2" x 3" Titanium being heated in a forge running two 3/4" Frosty T burners.  First ones a student of mine ever built too. Cuts like butter once you get it up to temp all the way through!

[Mikey98118]

What color was it at the right temp?

[ThomasPowers]

*HOT* but it takes a while for the heat to equalize all the way through. Once it gets to temp you could see the hot cut visibly advance with every blow of the sledge. Working it before that it's quite tough.

[Goods]

My experience with Ti was that is forged really easy at yellow, almost to easy, but when it dropped to red it was almost the same as hitting it cool. (I was afraid to take it above yellow! I really didn’t want it to burn! It my understanding that Ti will burn like magnesium... not sure if that correct.)

David

[ThomasPowers]

Yes Ti will burn; I've seen machine shop warnings for it.  Never managed to get it burning in a forge; but never tried. Instructions for putting it out are a bit more amusing than I want to deal with it!  I don't own a "Class D Fire Extinguisher".  Forging it is somewhat like the air hardening HSS: thwap, thwap thwap,TING!

I find steel more useful; but Ti more "impressive" with the crowd.

[Frosty]

Ti is easiest to light on a lathe or grinding wheel, the shavings can be quite the show. Hotter and much harder to put out than magnesium. Dad spun a LOT of Ti and the trick to not burning holes in the lathe beds and floor was to trim shavings small enough they burned out before hitting the lathe bed. He had one good class D fire once when one of the spinners didn't clean out the al shavings in the lathe before switching to Ti parts. The al had a layer of spinning lube on it when trimmed so it didn't oxidize and lit right up when burning Ti shavings landed in it. Burned a hole in the lathe bed and almost a foot into the floor but the spalling concrete scattered it and it went out without further damage. 

Scary stuff but not easy to get burning. 

Frosty The Lucky.

[671jungle]

On 9/15/2020 at 12:22 PM, Frosty said:

Burned a hole in the lathe bed and almost a foot into the floor but the spalling concrete scattered it and it went out without further damage.

That sounds terrifying!

[Frosty]

Oh B A B Y!

Ti shavings are pretty exciting once you get them going. Dad's Boy Scout type flint and steel fire starting was always quick and sure. Wouldn't let me use his though. <sigh>

Frosty The Lucky.

[Dustin U]

I haven’t gotten a response from Rex at Hybridburners either! Anyone know if he’s still in the business of selling burners? After a lot of research I decided a ‘Shorty’ burner would be the best choice for my mini forge build, but now things are at a standstill until I can order a burner!

[Frosty]

Welcome aboard Dustin, glad to have you. If you'll put your general location in the header you'll have a chance of hooking up with members living within visiting distance. 

From folks questions and comments here I don't think Rex has been responding for anything for better than a year now.  

Frosty The Lucky.

[Mikey98118]

1 hour ago, Dustin U said:

I haven’t gotten a response from Rex at Hybridburners either! Anyone know if he’s still in the business of selling burners? After a lot of research I decided a ‘Shorty’ burner would be the best choice for my mini forge build, but now things are at a standstill until I can order a burner!

The Shorty is a 1/2" burner size. Here's a fun fact: Starting with 1/2" and decreasing, the smaller a burner's size the hotter it tends to be. What I'm suggesting is, at the size your interested in, building a really hot burner is a very small problem. Oh, but small burners harder to build right? Yup, but that problem starts at 3/8" and gets harder as you go smaller. In many ways, a 1/2" burner is the easiest size to build right; just a thought

[Dustin U]

21 hours ago, Mikey98118 said:

The Shorty is a 1/2" burner size. Here's a fun fact: Starting with 1/2" and decreasing, the smaller a burner's size the hotter it tends to be. What I'm suggesting is, at the size your interested in, building a really hot burner is a very small problem. Oh, but small burners harder to build right? Yup, but that problem starts at 3/8" and gets harder as you go smaller. In many ways, a 1/2" burner is the easiest size to build right; just a thought

I’m brand new to this, building a decent burner seems above my level of know-how. I planned to use the Shorty burner for brazing and wood-charring as well as a forge-burner. 

23 hours ago, Frosty said:

Welcome aboard Dustin, glad to have you. If you'll put your general location in the header you'll have a chance of hooking up with members living within visiting distance. 

From folks questions and comments here I don't think Rex has been responding for anything for better than a year now.  

Frosty The Lucky.

Thanks Frosty. Any chance you could sell me a burner for a (roughly) 125 cubic inch forge? Haha

[Mikey98118]

2 hours ago, Dustin U said:

I’m brand new to this, building a decent burner seems above my level of know-how. I planned to use the Shorty burner for brazing and wood-charring as well as a forge-burner. 

Larry Zoeller Forge sells parts for his latest hot burner design; it's cheap and simple.

Ron Reil's burner pages are posted on the Web. You can use the instructions to build a smaller 1/2" burner; employing my changes (also posted there) they are easy to build and quite hot, and faily simple.

Frosty's "T" burner instructions are listed on this site; several people have posted their 1/2" version of it, on this group. I suggest you go with this one, because Frosty is available to bug for details, and doesn't have enough to do

You could build my burner, but it's much harder to build, and the inventor is cranky and querulous, while we all know that Frosty is a soft touch; yes, he's the smart choice