Thread: Forge

Knocked this together with my brother. Still needs a paint and a shelf for the brick but I’m pretty stoked how it’s turned out.

I’m intrigued by the gas mix tube!

Looks real similar to the feed tube on this one,

I bought it ex Hawera . Tried but had no luck building one that would work

The pro type Ooooh

Awesome.. how did you figure out the design?

It’s was a design off the net. 9kg gas bottle shell.

https://youtu.be/b8zOQ4hyQzc

Nice

speaking of homemade furnaces
back in my misspent youth ,we used to do "kerosene hangi's
a piece of exhaust pipe about 2 meters long with a piece of brake pipe let into the side of it about halfway along,brake hose pushed onto that syphoning
from the kero can at a steady drip,vacuum on blow at one end of exhaust pipe,other end into the side near the bottom of a 12 gallon drum full of brake blocks and hooks from trains.
light a fire with newspaper in bottom of drum to get things going.
In about 15-20 minutes contents of the drum would be just about white hot,push it over into the hole,plenty hot enough to cook a fair sized hangi in about 3 hours.
no photographic evidence was collected at the time

Well done. I finally got around to putting my one onto a stand on the weekend as well. Got sick of having to pick it up to shift it. Now I can just wheel it around on the shed floor. Made up a hammer rack for the side, a tong hanger across the front, and put a double bottle storage underneath, mainly for ballast.

So what are you going to make in the forge?

That’s a lot of hammers!

Plan at the moment is knives. Dad wants to make wrought iron door handles. Sky’s the limit really.

A man cannot have too many hammers!

(Or guns or knives for that matter)

Is it just me or does 2 lpg bottles sitting under a furnace seem kinda scarey?

@matto1234
You’ll find the radiated heat off the box to be surprisingly low. Remember the firebox is (if it’s like mine) fully lined with fireproof clay/fluff. The radiated heat that does come off does a brilliant job of helping prevent the regulators from icing up (the gas draw off can be sufficient to freeze them at times)

Originally Posted by SiB

@matto1234
You’ll find the radiated heat off the box to be surprisingly low. Remember the firebox is (if it’s like mine) fully lined with fireproof clay/fluff. The radiated heat that does come off does a brilliant job of helping prevent the regulators from icing up (the gas draw off can be sufficient to freeze them at times)

All of the above.
If you strap a couple of beersies to the lpg bottle it keeps them cool as well as the lpg bottle freezes up.