Thread: Gas forge for heat treating?

I cannot tell where the burner goes in?

First picture, the black pipe at the bottom on the left. The one above it is for the thermocouple.

Thought so....Should it not come in from the back top-middle side at a tiny angle toward the front?
Makes the heat go round and round?

I’ll use that sort of design for the smaller forge, this one is specifically for heat treating.

Did you mold the refractory into a flare or nozzle where the burner enters the forge? The flare or nozzle slows the gasses coming out of the mixing tube and stabilizes the flame so that the combustion stays at the burner.

No, I haven’t. I wanted to make sure it all would work before I wasted material on something that didn’t. I was also thinking that the back pressure from the forge itself would be enough.

Those frosty burners work well, you could hose clamp a quick and dirty sheet metal cone just to test your burner.

Most all of my burners are crap without a cone of some sort..

I’ll play with the other burner and see what kind of settings I get, hopefully gets me close enough for the one I welded into the ht Oven. Live and learn.