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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.
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(10-14-2012, 11:15 AM)Rickabilly Wrote: Hello Dave,
Speaking of welding....
Are we going to see an attempt?
I am committed to helping out with advice,
Sorry Dave, I'm not picking, trying to encourage actually.
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WOW! Ed!! 
You reeeeeeeelllly reeeellly like welding don't you? ;) 
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But Ed,
It was Dave's turn
Just hang in there and keep tryin to do a bit of welding,
the thing is that with every bit of practice and then thinking about the advice you get ,gives you things to think about and just that thinking time make a huge difference.
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That's a very cool little project Rick! I'll take one. I need one that can fit a sword in, in case I get all crazy hahahah.
Ed, is there blacksmithing sub-forum on here? Like old hammer and anvil type. I know some guys on Weapons Guild were wanting to share some of their blacksmithing projects and some of them are darn good. It's definitely metal working ;)
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It's easy enough to build a sword length one, but you would have to deal with the issue of uneven heating patterns, I would use multiple smaller sized torch heads, but to get around the spot heating issue you need to fit an intermediate divider between the flame chamber and the blade chamber, then it would need to be blocked off at the back and have a door fitted to the blade chamber.
It's called a "Muffle Furnace" the commercial ones are rarely gas fired nowadays, but they use a lot of electricity to power them, so not at all suitable for home use in the US as you really want a minimum 32 amps 3 phase @415 Volts to power it, maybe as much as 100amps for one big enough to heat treat a sword. So gas works but you would need to build one as there is no way you could buy it.
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(10-14-2012, 12:02 PM)DaveH Wrote: ...I was going to show it ............  you will all laugh
You know what they say Dave:
"Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and the world laughs at you"
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(10-14-2012, 12:54 PM)Rickabilly Wrote: ...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...
Really glad to see you have been able to get into the shop Rick. Let's hope the back continues to play nice.
Just out of interest (I know there will be a build thread) but what are the chains for?
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(10-13-2012, 07:32 PM)f350ca Wrote: Nice work (as Usual) Steve. How did you attach the clamp to the flat plate?
Oh by the way nice to see dirty machines.
Sorry I didn't get back to you on this, More ubiquitous 3/16x24 hex socket cap screws.
Besides, I the late reply can hide DaveH's welding display.
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