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You could do that but I wouldn't, the blower makes it harder for the spark to catch the gas, just blows it's self out. filling up the chamber with gas and that will go BOOM, or flash when it does catch.
Found that out the hard way! BTW Silverdine is realy good for burns.
Since then I light a piece of paper in the chamber turn on the blower then the gas valve and stand way back.
 
thats how i have been doing it, some times i'm lazzy and just holt a lighter to the door and turn on the air just a tad and then some gas. there is a small woosh and its running but it also removes arm hair that way as well so i will be sticking to the paper method.
 
That is an interesting fan set up, not sure I have seen that one. Where did you find it? That forge has a pretty flame with a nice vortex.
 
JTknives said:
thats how i have been doing it, some times i'm lazzy and just holt a lighter to the door and turn on the air just a tad and then some gas. there is a small woosh and its running but it also removes arm hair that way as well so i will be sticking to the paper method.
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Thats exactly how mine got me! My hand was fried no hair and not much skin was left un burned.
 
WadeH said:
That is an interesting fan set up, not sure I have seen that one. Where did you find it? That forge has a pretty flame with a nice vortex.
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it's a vacuum motor that i plug into a varac to control the voltage to it. it gives me a very accurate control of volume and air pressure. when i really crank it up it sounds like a jet motor, your have the roar of the forge and the high pitch wine from the vacuum blower. but at that t power i would most likely melt my forge
 
JT this may sound like a dumb question, but, when you look at the pictures it looks like the bottom is filled right up to the door bottom, is all the pipe filled up to the door opening?? So this would make the inside roughly 4" x 4".
It is a great looking forge though.

Daniel Somerville
 
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I made some doors from a similar material that was given to me (don't really know what it is), and I coated the inside of the doors and door openings with Satanite. I fired up the forge outdoors for about 2-3 minutes, and the smoke and fumes made my chest and throat hurt so I removed the doors and use stacked bricks at the openings. I think the doors would be more efficient, but I'm not sure I want lung cancer...if you figure out how long it takes, I'd like to know.

To light it, I have a small trigger-start handheld torch that I light first, point into the forge, and then turn on the forge gas. Seems easier and safer to me than the burning piece of paper approach does.



JTknives said:
i dont know if i am going to paint it as the shell does get quite hot and i'm not sure how hot the high temp paint can get. part of my shell by the burner input is a nice electric blue. which i believe is around 500 degrees. I'm going to be doing some forging to day after work. i have 3 knives i have to get done this month. does any one know how long it takes for the smell from the forge to burn off.
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