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Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:43 pm**

this is my mini forge. It is still in the developmental phases but i'm definitely liking it. Judging by how fast this thing heats up the metal id have to say it's some where in the 2000*F It runs of propane and i have a mattress inflater pumping in air and it is quite loud. The container totally got totaled but i didn't expect it to last. I'm hoping to make some vortex blocks or other stuff. I'm am currently using a 2'' galv. cap as a crucible but im looking for a better one.

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and a vid.

Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:55 pm**

cool what material are you melting down and what are you making with it

Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:56 pm**

aluminum, i can get it cheap from a scrap yard that is literally a mile and a half from my house.

Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:59 pm**

How do you make the parts you want?
Hammer and anvil?
Then lathe?

Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:04 pm**

are you using a sand mold or a wood mold and then are you gonna lathe it down smooth?

Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:04 pm**

what are you trying to make?

Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:11 pm**

dude was just looking at the pictures in greater detail did you have a 5 gallon plastic bucket filled with concrete and the center hollowed out and is that the 5 gallon bucket melting away?

Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:17 pm**

LikimysCrotchus5 wrote:what are you trying to make?

a forge(at the moment) , soon maybe simple things like vortex blocks and ammo

BigGrib wrote:dude was just looking at the pictures in greater detail did you have a 5 gallon plastic bucket filled with concrete and the center hollowed out and is that the 5 gallon bucket melting away?

more like a 2 gallon bucket with a can in the middle.

Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:22 pm**

nice what psi are you running off your propane regulator and did you light the propane before turning on the blower or after, and what did you use to light the forge? Oh yeah what diameter Glavi pipe is that 1.5"

Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:25 pm**

i don't know what psi, i just use it as a flow reg. I light it with long nosed lighter and the galv. pipe is 3/4''. dude this thing i basic

Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:32 pm**

hell if it works it works that's all that matters right, and dude are you really in olympia

Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:46 pm**

Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:48 pm**

thats awesome i'm in E WA down in tri cities

Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:15 pm**

theres alot o ppl from wash in this forum, like i myself and zaria

sorry to offtrack, thats a pretty sweet forge, start making ammo gosh~

Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:32 pm**

Im headed out to Pasco tomorrow for Cross Country state

SpudFiles

my mini forge (warning 4 dial-up)

my mini forge (warning 4 dial-up)