Todays Project - What did you do today?

[Rickabilly]

Incidentally, while this was Thursday's project, I did intend to post it here so I am going to anyway despite it being Sunday, I had a couple of hours on Thursday where my back wasn't too nasty and for the first time in many weeks I actually got to the workshop.

I have always wanted a propane forge for heating the ends of bar stock prior to forging in the fly press or doing all of those little jobs much more efficiently than by heating with a torch, this can be used for heat treating, forging brazing or melting small amounts of low temperature melting point metals.

I used my Morgan guillotine, the "big folder, flypress with folding tools, 10mm hand powered punch, small handheld punch and 52mm Qmax punch. The materials used were 1.5mm zinc annealed steel sheet, 5/32 or 4mm chain, 10 240mm x 120mm x 25mm vermiculite tiles and a 50mm propane burner.

photo 1, the unit without burner in the top.
   
photo 2, the burner mount using three hose clamps, three clamps gives better support than 1 or 2.
   
photo 3, what it looks like inside.
   

I took enough photos to add a build thread so will do so when I get around to it.

Regards
Rick