John Martin Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 (edited) Just a little reminder. I wanted to test a 18lb bag of charcoal briquettes. I have to say that I wreck three pieces of metal before I gave up, couldn't get above orange heat, and this is what it left in my forge. DON'T use briquettes. I only did this to test briquettes, I use charcoal regualary, but am switching to propane. Don't mind the girly sandals, my little sister got in the picture. Edited September 1, 2008 by m_brothers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cal-k Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 charcoal works fine for me and i've never seen anything like that! hows your forge built? i'm switchin to propane too, just makes sense Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Martin Posted September 1, 2008 Author Share Posted September 1, 2008 That's charcoal briquettes that I did a test with, I always use lump charcoal. Never had a problem with it. Attached are pictures of my forge, that is looking for a home. Lol. It's just taking up space in my already small shop because I've begun working on my propane forge stand. Four pictures of it just sitting there. One of it running. Works real good. But propane just makes sense for what I am going to be doing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt87 Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 M, cover it and store it outside if you need to. You seen how oil and gaseous fuels have been going up lately? A year or two's time and you'll be mighty pleased with a forge that you can run on charcoal you make from scrap timber methinks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trollhammer Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 I just finished my coal forge the other day, and I tried a bag of generic briquettes from Publix for my first lighting. I pushed a 1/4" rod in the fire just to see how hot it would get after it had a good bed. After 6 minutes, most of the bar that was in the fire was gone. The second light was with Royal Oak Charcoal, and I didn't really notice a difference, except that the Royal Oak burned a whole lot faster than the Publix brand briquettes. Mickey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Browne Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 I've never had real success with BBQ brickettes. I find you use a LOT and they are realy variable in their performance with some containing more filler than combustable material. I prefer to stick to coal (hard to get) or straight charcoal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Martin Posted September 2, 2008 Author Share Posted September 2, 2008 Exactly rmcpb. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inazuma_x Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 whoa...didnt know charcoal made clinkers... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt87 Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 That's not real charcoal, it's briquettes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Martin Posted September 2, 2008 Author Share Posted September 2, 2008 Yeah, I thought I was clear about that in my first post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bentiron1946 Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 The clinker is from all of the limestone they put in briquettes to bind the saw dust together. Briquettes are not made from big chunks of wood but from saw dust left over form saw mills and other wood working enterprises. Kingsford brand started from Henry Ford's left over wood scrap and saw dust from making model T's. Somewhere on YouTube there is a how it's done video on briquette manufacturing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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