Xref: utzoo rec.org.sca:4759 trial.rec.metalworking:22 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cme!durer!legowik From: legowik@cme.nist.gov (Steven Legowik) Newsgroups: rec.org.sca,trial.rec.metalworking Subject: Re: Blacksmithing Message-ID: Date: 3 Aug 90 22:46:07 GMT References: <7317@scolex.sco.COM> <1828@otc.otca.oz> <7340@scolex.sco.COM> Sender: news@cme.nist.gov Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology Lines: 28 In-reply-to: daveu@sco.COM's message of 2 Aug 90 18:59:13 GMT In article <7340@scolex.sco.COM> daveu@sco.COM (Dave Uebele) writes: >On the forge I have been using (and copying in design for my own forge), >the blower is connected to the forge via a piece of 4 inch metal flexible >duct that would normally be used for a clothes dryer vent. This attaches >to the stem of a 4 inch diameter cast iron T connection attached to the >bottom of the forge. One end of the T cross bar goes up to the grate, > Dave has pretty much said it all. I have two Champeon had crank blowers. One is about 9" in diameter and connected to a little portable forge pot. The other is about 16" in diameter and I connected it to my home made forge pot using a flexable metal dryer hose. That fire pot was constructed out of a sheet steel T arangement bolted onto a truck brake drum, which was lined with mortar. No clinker breaker. I couldn't think of a convenient way of constructing it. I died on me a month ago, after a year of service. RIP :-) It died of terminal rust because it was out in the weather. Now it is time for me to build another one and try something new. I have a number of ideas but haven't decided which to try first. Has anyone out there had any experince using or making a side blast forge? I'm also considering a design I read about in The Anvil's Ring. Steven Legowik Frederick, MD legowik@cme.nist.gov