Hallo people!
I had nothing to do today and so I made another forge!
This is the fifth forge I built and it's the first (or the second?) non-historical one.
Since my dog's gone, I decided to give up with forging using the historical forge (see
http://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1304866605). It gave me great satisfactions as I've used it to graduate at the university, but my beloved Tito is buried nearby and the whole garden is now off-limits for me. I just go there for the dog.
So I needed a new forge, to work indoor.
I went to my messy cellar and I started to look around: here, the old plastic pump I used when I was a child, to inflate my dinghy at the beach!
And look, a small iron manhole! Who knows where I stole it... ehi wait!
I pierced the manhole on one side, looked into my collection of iron pieces and found a pipe that fitted perfectly with the pump's plastic one.
So I hammered a little sheet of iron and created a tiny cone: this will link the iron pipe and the manhole!
I then fixed everything with insulating tape and put some coal in the manhole... I ignited it... hey it works!
But darn, pumping with the foot is sooo boring! And it takes forever to heat the iron...
I ran at home and grad my grandmother's hairdryer, went to the cellar again and put it in place of the pump.
Fixing the hairdryer with the plastic pipe... done!
After a hour, the heat destroyed the plastic pipe close to the hairdryer; I then decided to remove the pipe - no intermediary!
Look, my mom's plastic tiny flower pots! They're the right size! I cut down the bottom of one of them... and put it between the hairdryer and the iron pipe. Fixed with the tape as usual... it worked for some time, but then the heat caused the tape to unstuck!
Cool, no more tape.
Take that piece of thick leather, make ten holes on one side, ten on the opposite one, bend and saw everything... and you have a strong leather cone to replace the flower pot.
Guys, it worked.
I let the hairdryer go for 3 hours continuously and everything went well, no air losses.
Iron bright orange, close to 900°C all the time.
And a wonderful knife I made, will post picture of the forge and the knife later
Now you have no excuses not to upgrade to the Iron Age
Greetings,
Mauro.