Help please.
i would like to make a medium sized portable forge to take to old style / outdoor shows. it will be taken by car so can be fairly heavy, and can be put together on site and taken apart to travel if easier than it being built and carried around complete.
it needs to look really old, not even slightly modern or technical.
so no blowlamps or gas, just charcoal and stuff. it wants to be made of house bricks or something old looking with a fire cement lining i think.
it will get air from a antique pair of bellows with an air pump hidden inside like i said it can be really clever and high tech, but hidden behind pre-Victorian forge things.
in most of the places, as long as they arent too strict, i will probably dig out a section of the turf and put it to one side and use the dry ground beneath as the base, or put a slab of fire bricks down, but as long as they are hidden it doesnt matter.
it doesnt have to be very accurate, very few of the people at these shows will know about forging so if i am making knives out of mild steel at half the preferred temperature, it doesnt actually matter. as long as warm metal gets hit and turns into something it will be good enough.
it needs to be 2' wide and 1'deep and 3 bricks minimum tall.
my plan is to make a 2'x1'x1' box of cheap house bricks without the top and one 1' side and with the bottom being made of fire resistant bricks. then line the house bricks with fire cement on the inside.
then just digging a hole at the site and putting it in.
yes or no?
i would like to make a medium sized portable forge to take to old style / outdoor shows. it will be taken by car so can be fairly heavy, and can be put together on site and taken apart to travel if easier than it being built and carried around complete.
it needs to look really old, not even slightly modern or technical.
so no blowlamps or gas, just charcoal and stuff. it wants to be made of house bricks or something old looking with a fire cement lining i think.
it will get air from a antique pair of bellows with an air pump hidden inside like i said it can be really clever and high tech, but hidden behind pre-Victorian forge things.
in most of the places, as long as they arent too strict, i will probably dig out a section of the turf and put it to one side and use the dry ground beneath as the base, or put a slab of fire bricks down, but as long as they are hidden it doesnt matter.
it doesnt have to be very accurate, very few of the people at these shows will know about forging so if i am making knives out of mild steel at half the preferred temperature, it doesnt actually matter. as long as warm metal gets hit and turns into something it will be good enough.
it needs to be 2' wide and 1'deep and 3 bricks minimum tall.
my plan is to make a 2'x1'x1' box of cheap house bricks without the top and one 1' side and with the bottom being made of fire resistant bricks. then line the house bricks with fire cement on the inside.
then just digging a hole at the site and putting it in.
yes or no?