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First forge for heat treating

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sandness

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I pieced together a pretty succesful forge for heat treating. Paintcan shell, 1/4" 8# Kaowool layered to about 2" thick, satanite and ITC-100 coated, with a simple Bernz-O-Matic propane torch. She gets up to temp in about 10min or so.

While firing the ITC-100
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Hot with an intense swirl
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Tested with a junked blank- cherry in 40sec. :)
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Along with a stainless steel drywall mud pan for my oil, I think I'm set to make some metal hard.
 
that for sure will work looks good , we around here have been building them somewhat different we have found that if you place a pipe inside and place the wool out to the sides of the forge or can in your case it will work great in heating the pipe and in return allow the heat to be even inside the pipe and will not have as much of a hot spot giving a better control
heating for heat treating
just something that we have been playing with and getting good even temp in the pipe
BOWIE
 
:thumbup: NICE HT SET UP. IF MY FIRE BRICK DOESN'T WORK OUT, I THINK
I'LL MAKE A COPY OF YOURS. RANDY ROBERTS
 
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