In my weird down time I decided to build an lp fired forge for my son to use in his knifemaking. Of course along those lines we are planning some belt sander projects and buffers (large buffers that do not cost 2k). I took a practice pipe of 12" from a wannabe pipeliner and used it for the body. Threw in a quick floor, tig fused some 1/8 rod for hooks (insulation), sacrificed a short piece of my amazing three run hoosier pole for some burner holders....then insulated with some 1" kaowool(thanks superflux) and coated with kast-o-lite. Plan on using plistex 900f for IR reflector and installing two 210k btu burners. It will do fine with one but in case we want to do any forge welding I put in a second burner hole. We also plan to melt AL for some casting projects, a second burner will be handy to make this go quick and use less fuel. I got some very beefy 6kf brick I am going to carve some crucibles out of but I would like to learn to make one from steel in the size I need eventually.
Some folks like to golf, some like to play pool, some like video games....this is how I like to spend my free time around the house.
This last one is burning the casting off, darn thing would not fit in the oven. Weird I watched moisture fall from the burner holders for over three hours. The casting had a 24 hour dry, there was still a ton of water left. Dang glad I burned it off before putting the real fire to it.
Yall take care
later