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The valve is 3/8" in and out. No I haven't tried it yet. It is a ceiling fan speed controller and rated for 8 amps, my blower is almost 4 amps!

Didn't do anything with the forge today except contemplate tomorrow! I'm hoping I have enough of the right steel to build a new shelf for the new gas line to go under. May have to improvise being locked down. We'll see.. I'll may add yet another shelf under that one in the future if needed...

We are doing pretty well. We try to not go out at all! Hardly preppers, but after Katrina when I saw that desolate black lady sitting on a curb surrounded by a few meager possessions being interviewed by some news channel saying something to the effect of "I'm just waiting for somebody to come...

Those people aren't preppers, they are scared near desperate people trying to act in what they feel is in their own best self interests. The only thing you can expect in this situation is for people to over react. Human nature, you can bet on it.

Thanks guys! Right now it seems as if my problem is too much air, not the lack of, if I need to change the plug in the future I will. Well the only thing forge related I did today was to fire it up to about 2200 F to cure the refractory on the plug, tomorrow I will do the ITC-100 coating on...

Didn't do much on the forge today. I installed the rear plug and fired the forge up twice to about 1000 F just to cure the plug refractory. Kinda nice not have any back blast out the rear! Probably reduces the forge volume by about 72 ci..... But I did finally get my treadle hammer bolted...

Just one guy.... https://www.amazon.com/ask/questions/Tx2GC4TW1ONGIID/ref=ask_dp_dpmw_al_hza As my Daddy used to say many many moons ago, IF a bullfrog had wings he wouldn't bump his butt! But I'd bet you are right. Yes indeed, very clear, thank you!

There was a complaint on Amazon about the flow rate!? Not sure I understand that, I understand that they could reduce velocity but volume seems pretty fixed no? Or I guess it is with less velocity you get less volume? If I had another 3" nipple I was thinking about making a flange and try...

Yeah I think I'm kinda regretting that 'big honking blower' right about now! :rolleyes: I was looking at that concentric ring drawing and seeing if I had the parts on hand. So far I can't find any 1" pipe but that doesn't mean I don't have any. I guess with my blower tube being 1.5" I'd just...

Tested the forge again, I first cranked the gas to 9 PSIG, blower damper shut, and just opened the needle valve until the forge lit. Unfortunately I don't know how much I opened the needle valve, maybe half. (I'm going to make a scale for it today!) The forge got up to about 1800 F pretty fast...

Yes it is still plugged into the speed controller, but the variable side of the speed controller isn't working at all but the normal 'ON' side still works fine. The variable control seemed to work just fine when I first hooked it up but no more for whatever reason. I ordered a new speed...

For whatever reason speed control isn't working at all no more, if I try to use variable speed the blower shuts down! The blower is running at top speed with the damper fully closed. So again the damper is already fully closed, if I close the needle valve the temp goes down. I have very little...

Ok there is a lot of info attached, I'm sure a lot of you don't care to see it but let me sum it up by first saying that I had had my PSIG gauge in the wrong place previously. Now I have moved it to the correct place, upstream of the needle valve, and now I can actually know how much gas I'm...

I'm back! If you get enough people telling you are wrong it's time to step back and re-evaluate. So thank you to all commenter's online and off. KenH has finally beat it through my thick skull (I didn't earn my screen name for nothing!) when he mentioned the possible heat build up under the...

I've used it on carbon steel, and it works at least OK. Not perfect. Kinda a pain to apply. And you have to clean it off later. Also on carbon steel I question what it might do to my quench oil. YMMV

That sounds a whole lot better than anything I've come up with! I plan to do some more testing on it today. I'm also going to re-evaluate the whole propane tank issue. If you get enough people telling you it's wrong then I need to step back and re-think things.

Yes you are correct! If I don't mess with the regulator the PSIG gauge stays the same. And I guess I'm okay with that, but if I turn off the regulator after the manifold is drained and then back on then I get an increased PSIG level. Don't really understand that. Yes, I agree on the heat build...

This is a great idea and would be easily accomplished with a cheap modified hand truck. Shop space being what it is (or isn't in my case) I'm not sure of the best way. I can clear a space under some shelves about 6' away and then deal with the exposed propane line, or I could conceivably...

I've tried to consider which was more dangerous a totally enclosed unit with no exposed lines or a propane line running across the floor? If my forge was in a fixed location then I could hard pipe the propane line. On the manifold pressure what I have been doing is turning off the gas at the...

Good points one and all, and thank you Ed! This is pure gold! Believe me I too have concerns about blowing myself up and the hot bits that can fall from forging. And I have dropped hot steel while forging, I know it can and does happen! This forge has been a long time WIP and not all the...