[Sca-cooks] Charcoal forge suggestion ;-)

[Chass Brown]

Hmm for a portable forge aye the foam ones lol but... um I didnt make mine 
portable lol it takes up half my garage roflmao. I have seen the portable 
ones and thought about making one but cant find one of those hand crank 
fans.

Chass of Rundel of Ansteorra aka of the SCA aka
Charinthalis Del Sans of the portable Chariot
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>
> Of COURSE it cracked- a flower pot just isn't up to the temperatures you
> generate when you're operating a forge. And the brake drum is not "just to
> fill up space", it's there not only to handle the temperatures that a 
> forge
> can generate, it's to shape and direct the fire, so that it's controlled. 
> I
> suspect that if you proceed with your cat litter intentions as you stand, 
> it
> will work for a few uses, and then the entire thing will burn up, because 
> the
> litter will crack, catching the shell of the barbecue on fire, or maybe
> melting it, if you're lucky- cat litter just isn't designed to deal with
> those temperatures. Myself, I'm lusting after some castable refractory 
> I've
> found that's good up to 3000 degrees Fahrenheit, for the forges I want to
> build.
>
> Fire brick will work, too, although for higher temperatures, you want the
> light weight stuff, that feels like a bit of foam, almost, when you lift 
> it,
> rather than the heavier fire brick that feels sinilar to building brick-
> again, the lighter bricks are resistant to higher temperatures.
>
> The thing you need to keep in mind that if you'll be using charcoal for 
> your
> fire, you want a fire that's deeper than you'd have for a coal fire. Part 
> of
> what you're doing is focussing the fire with the blower and the shape of 
> the
> fire pot, rather like what you're doing with a glass lens when you focus 
> the
> sun's rays to catch a bit of paper or wood on fire- you can get forging
> temperatures by burning your house down too, but that much fire is a bit
> difficult to get close enough to use, never mind being a bit inconvenient,
> when you try to go to bed that night ;-)
>
> Phlip
>
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