What psi are you running at?

[hogworthy]

This is just for my own curiosity... and not during the heating up, I'm talking when running after the initial "warm it up" phase...

I'm running a home built forge with a T-Rex and once I'm up to forging heat inside I have it running at below 5 psi (not sure cause my gauge starts at 5), loks like 3-4 to me. When I don't have a work piece directly in the forge, I bypass it through a needle valve and it barely even registers on the gauge. We're talking almost off.

I was just curious what others are experiencing as this is my first (for real) forge and I wasn't 100% sure what to expect.

If you have a minute, post your "stats" here for all curious enough to look.

Oh... almost forgot! By my (crude) calculations I'm around 405-415 cubic inches blocked by fire brick in the front so I can adjust the size of the hole I need for the individual work piece. Said psi is with about a 4" x 5" hole in the bricks.

 

[lastbrunneng]

I've been running around 2 psi (we are talking propane, right?) in a ~300 cubic inch horizontal forge with a 4.5" x 3" mouth, I use a kiln burner. It seems like it takes forever to heat up since I lined it with satanite.

 

[hogworthy]

Look into HYB-UV on http://hybridburners.com/new-ordering.html, it costs about half of what ITC is and works just as good.

Don't get too close when you are "curing" it... believe me, you'll know the next day. I learned the hard way!

I go from cold start to full burn in about 7-8 minutes.