Subject: Re: Burner Melt+Forge Metal

From: [email-masked] (Fitch R. Williams)
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 04:29:26 GMT

Paul Pierce <[email-masked]> wrote:

>> BTW, how do you put pictures INTO a newsgroup posting ?
>> I use netscape 3.0 on both Windows NT/95 and Sun Solaris.
>> 
>> Klaas

>You guys using Netscape Navigator 3.0---
>I hardly ever am able to get references.  I click on them 
>and about 95% of the time I get "News error---".  Am I
>doing (or not doing) something wrong (right)?

>-- 
>Paul in AJ AZ  NRA Endowment Member

>Checkout the Metal Web News at:
>new address (11/23/96)

>http://www.ten.k12.tn.us/~wgray

>Checkout the FAQ at:
>http://PLAINS.UWYO.EDU/%7Emetal/index.html

I used to use Netscape.  I had lots of problems getting
references.  I felt like I could see the news group with
only one eye.  Now I use Free Agent.  IMO it is easier to
configure and has more functionality as a NG reader.  I am
much happier with it as a NG browser than I was with
Netscape.

In fact buying their full up "Agent" product is on my
Christmas list.   It is only something like $25.00
downloaded or $40.00 with a manual.  Agent has E-mail built
in and is compatible with Eudora so that my legacy E-mail
files can be imported.

I believe the publishers are located at www.forteinc.com or
something close to that.  I had the paper here someplace but
it got buried or was a victum of the Thanksgiving cleanup.

Fitch

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From: Tom <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 01 Dec 1996 22:55:31 -0500

Anybody ever build and use this type of burner for
melting Aluminum,Bronze,Cast iron?? Or heating metal
for forge work??
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Anybody read Dave Gingery's book's like How to build 
A Charcoal Foundry,to How to build a lathe sold
by Lindsay Publications Inc 815-935-5353
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Attached file (picture) should autoload with netscape 3
or save gif file and view it.
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A burner design for 2400 degrees F with propane alone.
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For melting Bronze,Brass,and Aluminum
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Does not require a fan due to energy of high velocity
propane sucking in air (Bunsen-Jet Pump Principle)
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From: "Randy R. Cox" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 01 Dec 1996 22:34:55 -0600

Tom wrote:
>     ---------------------------------------------------------------
I have used a similar burner with propane to heat an open bottom Raku
burnout oven for my ceramic shell molds.  It requires a hot stack to
allow exit of hot gasses.  My oven was an inverted half of a 55 gallon
steel drum insulated top and bottom with space age refractory blanket. 
The burner entered a small hole at the bottom.  At the top center I had
a six long two inch pipe nipple for a stack.  It worked fine for
burnout, but only reached temp. of 1500 F. which is not hot enough to
melt bronze.

Randy