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Bruno 
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10-01-2011, 09:34 PM #1
Not hot enough
Today I fired up my makeshift forge for the first time.
It's basically a repurposed old bbq, and a small hairdryer for blowing air through the holes.
It was not a big success. I succeeded in flattening the piece I was working on, but imo it was not hot enough. My pieces only got to be slightly red-ish.
The steel had to be hammered very hard in order to get it to do something.
Any suggestions for improving it in order to make it get higher temperatures?
Or is this bad enough that I have to scrap it and make something better?
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