Forge from a turkey cooker??

[shoeman]

I have a tukey cooker (actually a Cajun Cooker that I uses to homebrew with) and I'm wondering if it or it's parts have any use as a forge heat source?
Anybody monkeyed around with this before?

TIA
Geoff

 

[9bullets]

I used mine to anneal some steel. I laid the blade on the grate above the burner. It just got hot enough to de-magnetize the steel and that was spotty so I helped it along with a hand held torch. I think if you built some sort of box to hold the heat that you could set over the burner you'd be in business.

 

[m. wohlwend]

I tried years ago and it didn't get hot enough. Wrong style of burner. The one brick forge is much better. Google "one brick forge" and see if you can find plans.

 

[shoeman]

I've been using a one-brick forge and it's worked fine on all the smaller blades I've been making so far. Yesterday I tried to heat a much larger piece and it just would not do the job. The fact that it was in the low 30's in my garage probably did not help any either.
I don't have enough firebricks to build an "oven" over the burner ring. Maybe I can pirate the actual burner parts and build around that.