On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, T&J Holloway wrote:

>       With a 200 lb. Mousehole anvil you are already the envy of a
>       bunch of smiths and wannabes.

Yeah, I 'spose any anvil you can't easily move by yourself is gonna
cause envy...

> We'll be interested to hear how the Webber conversion goes. I think
> you'll probably need a sturdier fire pot than anything I've seen in a
> BBQ, and a tuyere assembly to channel the air to the hotspot. I've
> sometimes wondered if a salvaged blade from a farm disc/disk (a
> sturdy, concave, round piece of steel) could be set up in a Webber BBQ
> to make a fire pot for a forge.

In general Tom offers pretty good advice on that, but I've seen one or
two weber conversions that were not too bad. You will need to come up
with some type of tuyere, but I've seen firebrick formed into a firepot
that made a pretty decent sized forge that could burn all the various
solid fuels.

Another way would be to build a cage out of rebar or similar, and pack
mortar cement on it, I've even seen crucibles made like this that work
fine. The firepots I've seen for sale that are made out of steel which
can withstand the heat of a coal/coke forge, are pretty pricey.

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Alan DuBoff - Software Orchestration

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