You are inspiring. Time to build a burner! Best build and simple to understand the basic configuration of parts! Won't be wasting any money buying an inspirator for myself--trip to ths scrapyard is in my future. Thanks brother!
Thank you K Mac, I appreciate the kind words good luck with your burner build I hope it goes well, if I can answer any questions don't hesitate to ask. Thanks for watching and take care.
My friend! You keep saying your are not an expert on this and that, well... You always do a damn good job in what you do! This was also very well explained :) I'll keep this video in mind for when I'll build a gas forge, this is way better than the one made by the king of random! Awesome mate. Keep it up!
What I lack in expertise I make up for in determination and dumb luck, but thank you for the kind words I do appreciate it, I wish you all the best luck in building a gas forge, from what I've seen of your work it will be a piece of awesome functional art work without equal, thanks again for watching Black Beard, take care of yourself my friend all the best.
Was thinking the same B.B.P, that knife he made with the bone in it was way better or as good as what I have seen pro's do. I hope he stops thinking of his stuff as inferior. It ain't!
First time I've seen a clear demonstration of a burner build! Thanks, this was way better than reading and looking at pictures. Not getting rid of my side blast forge any time soon, but I plan on building a propane forge some time this summer I think.
Hello Louis I hope things are going well, thanks for the kind words, and if you get around to building your propane forge I hope things go very well for you. Take care and be safe.
I love your lathe, I moved to Colchester in the UK back in 1968 my father actually built those lathes. I never realised till recently that these lathes were sent all round the world 👍 Great video
Teetering on the edge of 53k! 👍⚒️❤️😀. Was an absolute honor, to shake you hand &get a "smithing hug" in person in September. One of the best times of my life. ❤️👍
Love the lathe. I have a 15x48 Colchester. The chuck looks to be a reversible jaw , adjustable Buck Chuck. The 4 way tool post is correct for the lathe. Nice work on the burner build.
Great job on the burner. I've made a few now and each one has been a little picky and needed fine tuning. I like your adjustable choke. May have to do that on the next one.
Came out great. I used two .30 mig tips in my home made burners. Welding is no problem. Only two burners and I Forge between 8-12 psi. I start high and go Down as the forge heats up. And when I want to weld I turn up the propane any where from 12-18 psi. But I have ran at 30 just to heat up the forge faster. My forge is 24 inches long two burners 10 x 10 square tubing. 1 inch koawool on the sides and top and brick lined bottom Still a work in progress I need to line it with more kaowool and tci 100 maybe I wound use a little less fuel. A 100 lbs tank reallly doesn’t last long. Around 8 hours. I don’t no if that is the norm I am New at this field...thx Tim. Great work and videos ....Paul.
Nice job! I built a similar one to Alex's using tubing instead of pipe with a stainless burner and an .030 mig tip. The placement of the tip is adjustable longitudinally the entire length of the tube, it does make a big difference in the placement. I do believe when you get that stuck in the forge you will be able to open the air intake WAY open without it going out. I was able to melt metal with mine. Thanks for your efforts in making your videos for us 👍
Thanks for the information I think what I'm going to do is build a longer threaded stem so that I can adjust the gas inlet up and down a little more to test it out, another subscriber suggested I make the flair adjustable as well, so many good ideas I don't know where to start. Thanks for checking out take care.
BIG DOG FORGE Yes, I would guess your mig tip is a little deep in the tube. You could gain a little by dumping the pipe cap and weld a 1/4 inch nut on the end of your pipe that the mig tip screws onto. I made mine adjustable in all aspects so I could use this burner to develop a baseline for each individual forge when I build them, then build a fixed burner on the specs that I saw worked for each. I could send you a pict of mine if you wanted. Your flame pattern looked pretty good to me. I found that a 7 degree flare on the flare tube worked the best in the flame pattern, but now we're splitting hairs.
Van Der Hoof man, do you have a video of your burner?? I really love this one from big dog, but I want one that is more reliable, so I can use it on every day forge and to make Damascus steel as well... cheers!
Hey Tim - love your videos and ironically I am in the middle of building my propane forge so timing was helpful. Thanks for sharing and good luck with your new burner.
Thanks Rick, I'll be posting videos on rebuilding both forges this weekend, if there's any thing I can do to help let me know. Good luck and take care my friend, by the way the coil spring hold downs were awesome to keep up the good work.
Thank you sir that's awesome information Sid thanks for passing it along, I am convinced that need a larger tip so I will probably change that out during forge build. Thanks for tuning in and take care.
Being 4 yrs ago, probably ready for a new rebuild, 2 things I think might help, a two part paint under the name "Thermo-Guard", supposed to be able to insulate an egg from cooking while a torch applied. And a couple of castable refractories, one is a mix of portland, sand, clay, and red brick broken down into pea gravel and dust. The other is aircrete, concrete mixed with a foam made from dish soap and water, can find out recipes for both easily on youtube.
you have done an amazing ability to make things im impressed i made a burner out of barbeque parts and my air compressor as i cant afford to buy a forge burner as well nice work
Good job on the burner grayem, necessity is the mother of invention and I love to hear about how people overcame a problem to continue moving forward using what they have at hand, good job. Thanks for watching and have a good one.
Great build! To Roger Pemberton, a burner needs a flare for the combustion to stabilize. I just finished a two burner forge modeled after Alecs, but these burners are brilliant Tim, and they burn a lot better than the ones I made, which are Ron Reil copies. Looks like I'll be pulling them apart to copy your build... It looks like yours will reach welding temps easy with a slight bit of tuning! Keep up the good work, loving the videos!
Thanks Mike and thanks for the input I do appreciate it I agree a little bit of tuning and this burner should do pretty well, I guess we'll find out in the forge rebuild video stay tuned, and thanks for watching
Brill build, the mig tip was positioned right, it's real important that the gas is shooting down the pipe central, that's the good thing in using a lathe everything is central and accurate, it's pulling in so much oxygen coz it's 1.5" opening, 1 1/4 better, but coz it's choked it's fine, again great job.
next burner you build, use the lathe to remove the threads of the bell end and smooth the radii of the bell.... excellent work, just something I thought could be improved
mine works best on 030 035was a bit much and as always thank you for your time in making great videos for us to enjoy and learn from.how you did the choke was great thanks again Tim
Thank you Rick, I'm going to give it a try the way it is but I'll probably have to step up to 030 I think you're probably right it will work better that way, but we'll figure that out when we get there. Thanks for tuning in.
Excellent work! You won't have to change anything on your burner.. it will stay lit once it's in the forge and you can open up the air to its potential. Blown burners have the same issue.. Won't stay lit outside the forge. Thanks for the video. ..
BIG DOG FORGE I'm looking forward to getting my Devil Forge running by next month. I retired 3/3/16 just picked up a part-time job at a big box store so I can buy more toys! Bought a cheep tig/plasma cutter. Going to put heat/AC in my garage. then by a 200amp mig. I like working metal as much as wood. Couple years I'll make some stuff to sell. Life is exciting! I worked 37 years as a industrial painter! I'll try a Damascus knife just for the fun of it. I would like to make a 10 foot with arch rod iron fence. Im kinda jack of all trades master of none! Lol I see people like you that do great work and you make it look pleasant! 37 years and I'm still alive but my Guardian Angel has put in some overtime! Lol Thanks I look forward to your next adventure!
Nice build Big Dog. I have done similar and a couple of things that work for me are if you can turn an inside taper in the flare it helps keep the flame blowing out due to an increase in low pressure in that area. Also if you hook the completed burner up to water first then you can ensure the flow from the mig tip is directly down the centre of the body and tune if required. all good. Love the no fuss approach you take.
Hello Michael the burner is now up and running and I took your advice and ran waters through it and it worked out well I was also able to turn the taper on the inside of the flair thank you so much for the suggestion it really helped it no longer goes out. Thanks for the input take care.
LIKE COMMENT SUB Well done Sir . Your casual manner as you throw together one of the BEST forge burners (10th video) I have seen on my mission to Blacksmith with my son is a testament to just how skilled you are. Were just getting started and I was going to buy a burner for the 75 Gall propane tank I have turned into a foundry. But after watching this I am absolutely making my own. Again well done Sir !!
Excelente trabajo BIG DOG FORG aré una réplica para mis trabajos de cuchillos estoy haciendo una pequeña forja y este trabajo que hiciste me fue de gran ayuda gracias por compartir tus conocimientos estoy suscripto al canal saludo desde Bariloche Argentina 🇦🇷
I've found any threaded joints down stream from the valve don't really need to be sealed. After all, whenever the valve is opened, the gas is freely flowing out the orifice, hence no real pressure builds up to be contained. The teflon tape used near the heat actually melts and is drawn into the threads and past by capillary action. This is where that mysterious wisp of tape comes from. You may notice it being colored grey, when the initial color was white or yellow. I am going to copy your design, thank you Big Dog.
Thanks for the information I do appreciate it, this is the best burner I have ever built for myself I hope it works out as well for you. Thanks for watching and have a good one.
Really enjoying your videos I heard you say you paid 80cents a pound for your scrap. I guess I'm pretty lucky the yards in RI/CT. Charge 32cents a pound and then if you have a bunch left over they will buy it back. This makes it very reasonable to build presses and power hammers and the like. Thanks for the videos
Thanks for watching Justin, wow that sounds like an awesome deal on scrap, since I made this video the scrap prices have actually dropped around here to 72¢ a pound which is good but man you've got the screaming deal going. Thanks for tuning in and take care.
BIG DOG FORGE I actually bought 700 lbs today for 200$ including a 3x5.5 ar plate 14" long for an anvil I'm building so it dropped here too less than 30 cents. I also picked up the h- beam for my forging press
freaking GENIUS Tim! i cant believe it worked first try! im totally jealous haha, everyone seems to have a lathe :( mines about a 15 hour drive away. gotta get my truck going, test drive it, make sure im gunna get there, then go get it. the only thing i dont like is ive noticed my tools are rusting in the shop pretty bad... thinking its from the forge creating condensation from cold to hot and back to cold, too quickly... gotta wd40 and scrub my drill press especially! im wondering if insulation would help that issue... in any case Tim, cheers bud! i think i need to make a couple burners like that... would definitely cut the noise level down, and maybe use less propane...
A Brother how have you been hope things are going well, the other forge has a T. Rex style burner and makes a lot of noise this one seems much quieter and it looks like it may actually put out more heat can't wait to get the forge put together and test it out, good luck with a truck I hope the runs OK, man cannot live on drill press alone. Take care man will talk to you soon.
I do love that lathe it works really well and it looks cool just sitting in the shop, I also build a David Hammer style burner I could never get it quite right I got it to work but it just never produced the heat that I needed in comparison this one seems to be light years ahead, but I'll just have to wait and see until the forge is rebuild. Thanks for watching and take care
Outstanding. I like this design...I'd had nearly the same thing in my head but watching your build nailed down a few blurry thoughts in my mind. I've read where you're considering a larger fuel jet (makes sense) but would tapered air cap for finer adjustable air flow be overkill? That was one of the thoughts I had bouncing around...that and an adjustable/tunable chamber flare. Once again, outstanding! You produce excellent tutorials and you're videos are quite addictive. New subscriber, Kenny
I think you could have taken off the threads on the intake bell for smoother air flow, but that is all I have to say, nice build. I actually like the intake design, nice and big, overly large but good for air intake. This design of burner is my favorite.
That is bad ass I would have never thought that would work lol very clever and good way to not buy oxygen... would that work for oxygen/acetylene torch
I like the idea of re-bricking and I certainly have plenty of bricks but I also have 1/2 dozen bags of castable refractory. So I'm kind of on the fence. But I do agree it would be much easier to rebuild in the future, going to have to puzzle over this one for a while. Thanks for the input Scott take care and be safe.
Hey tim, nice burner ! I am in process of building the alex Steele's forge..and like you I've checked out gameco... expensive! Would you be interested in build 2 of those burners for me and how much would the cost be plus the shipping to indiana ??
Thanks Paul, just started using it but the flair seems to be doing pretty well it's built out of some heavy stainless pipe. Thanks for tuning and take care.
Tim, I may have missed it, but whats the MAX Pressure on the regulator? I've saved about 10, videos on how to build. Yours is the finest! One thing I think I'd do is put a spring on it to hold tension on the air inlet just to keep it from turning on its own. :)
The spring is a good idea, I have the genuine gameco burner and the choke does like to wander a bit! I fixed it with a bit of loctite after setting to the desired pos.
great vidoe build check out Michael Porter's book on gas burners for Forges n kilns great reference material I use a extra piece of kio wool and a fire brick as a disposable bottom then there's no need to reline after damacus work keep the videos coming my friend
Good info Wade I appreciate it, the wife said she found Michael porter's book on Amazon and ordered it for me, hope she got the right one. I guess great minds think alike the plan was to come up with some sort of replaceable bottom but you've given me a starting point thank you sir and thanks for watching.
Borax works well as a steel flux??? Asking because borax is easy to get but I have no idea where to get actual steel foraging flux or what I would be looking for...
I am curious, I have never forged with gas, the occasional rose bud on Acty. Coal and charcoal here, and just minimally. How much fuel do these gas forges use? An 18 - 20# tank here runs about $20.00 US. How long of a fire can you get off one? Thanks.
I would have went and made the mig tip height adjustable as well to find what gives the best flame. Would have put a swivel elbow on the end to allow for this and a longer threaded pipe for the mig tip/choke.
Here is an old machinist's trick from an old machinist. Never, ever, leave the chuck key in the lathe chuck after removing the workpiece. Tricks like this are how young machinists become old machinists.
You are inspiring. Time to build a burner! Best build and simple to understand the basic configuration of parts! Won't be wasting any money buying an inspirator for myself--trip to ths scrapyard is in my future. Thanks brother!
Thank you K Mac, I appreciate the kind words good luck with your burner build I hope it goes well, if I can answer any questions don't hesitate to ask. Thanks for watching and take care.
That is the smoothest burning burner I have ever seen. It’s even better than all the Bunsen burners in the labs!!!! Nice and quite!!!!great job
Awesome, thank you!
My friend! You keep saying your are not an expert on this and that, well... You always do a damn good job in what you do! This was also very well explained :) I'll keep this video in mind for when I'll build a gas forge, this is way better than the one made by the king of random! Awesome mate. Keep it up!
What I lack in expertise I make up for in determination and dumb luck, but thank you for the kind words I do appreciate it, I wish you all the best luck in building a gas forge, from what I've seen of your work it will be a piece of awesome functional art work without equal, thanks again for watching Black Beard, take care of yourself my friend all the best.
Was thinking the same B.B.P, that knife he made with the bone in it was way better or as good as what I have seen pro's do. I hope he stops thinking of his stuff as inferior. It ain't!
First time I've seen a clear demonstration of a burner build! Thanks, this was way better than reading and looking at pictures. Not getting rid of my side blast forge any time soon, but I plan on building a propane forge some time this summer I think.
Hello Louis I hope things are going well, thanks for the kind words, and if you get around to building your propane forge I hope things go very well for you. Take care and be safe.
thanks for making this video! Ive been wanting to make a propane forge and this will help a lot.
Thanks to you and Alec Steele. I just built my first double burner. Turned out good. Thanks Again!
Thanks man! Great stuff
This is one of the nicest burner builds I've watched. Nice job, I'm definitely going to build one of these.
Nice burner thanks for the info on building a burner
I love your lathe, I moved to Colchester in the UK back in 1968 my father actually built those lathes. I never realised till recently that these lathes were sent all round the world 👍
Great video
Very cool!
Excellent video, nice instructions step by step on a great designed burner! Thank you for sharing.
For those without a lathe, you can use threaded lamp pipe for the nozzle holder. They have external 1/8 IP straight threads.
Excellent I had no idea thanks for the input, you learn something new every day. Thanks for tuning in.
Excelente show parabéns
Sou um dos seguidores de seus trabalhos seus vídeos
Parabéns 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Love it Tim. Awesome as usual.
Thanks GunPilot very much appreciated. Take care.
Cool build!
Nice Build. Will copy this for myself. Thank you for sharing.
Teetering on the edge of 53k! 👍⚒️❤️😀. Was an absolute honor, to shake you hand &get a "smithing hug" in person in September. One of the best times of my life. ❤️👍
OUTSTANDING VIDEO RANGER... AWESOME JOB
Thanks David I appreciate the kind words. Take care
looking good. I also need to build one. thanks for the video Tim.
You will from jay and thank you for watching.
wish I HAD A LATHE!! GREAT work my friend!
Wow just wow! Such a complicated burner to make yourself and you pulled it off perfectly. Amazing as always. Thanks for taking the time to share.
Thank you Joe I appreciate that very much. Thanks for tuning in the care of yourself.
Probably the best burner build I have seen to date!!!! Nice work sir. Thanks for posting.
Thank you and thanks for watching.
Nice job. I hope you're not offended, but you are the "Bob Ross" of blacksmithing. Much respect.
Nice build! Will heat some steel alright.
Thanks Torbjorn I appreciate the kind words. Thanks for watching and take care.
Hi Torbjörn!
Love the lathe. I have a 15x48 Colchester. The chuck looks to be a reversible jaw , adjustable Buck Chuck. The 4 way tool post is correct for the lathe. Nice work on the burner build.
Really great build and thanks for sharing it makes following your lead that much easier.
Thanks Geoff I appreciate that, take care and have fun.
Great job on the burner. I've made a few now and each one has been a little picky and needed fine tuning. I like your adjustable choke. May have to do that on the next one.
That is kick ass!!!
Thank you and thanks for tuning in.
Came out great. I used two .30 mig tips in my home made burners. Welding is no problem. Only two burners and I Forge between 8-12 psi. I start high and go Down as the forge heats up. And when I want to weld I turn up the propane any where from 12-18 psi. But I have ran at 30 just to heat up the forge faster. My forge is 24 inches long two burners 10 x 10 square tubing. 1 inch koawool on the sides and top and brick lined bottom Still a work in progress I need to line it with more kaowool and tci 100 maybe I wound use a little less fuel. A 100 lbs tank reallly doesn’t last long. Around 8 hours. I don’t no if that is the norm I am New at this field...thx Tim. Great work and videos ....Paul.
Another awesome build sir!
Thank you Marc much appreciated. Thanks for tuning in.
Pretty interesting build. shows what a person can do with some know how and ingenuity.
Thanks for the kind words Joseph, and thanks for checking out the video.
Well, Tim, you did it good. Anything that works when you are done is a good job. You be safe too, and have a great day.
Thanks Philip hope things are going well take care my friend.
That is a helluva burner!
Thank you and thanks for watching.
I really like you channel its wholesome
Ive been watching for about a year now. Keep up your great work ❤.
Very Cool!
Thanks, take care.
Very well explained without being overly long, you have taken out a lot of the mystery regarding burners
Thanks David and thanks for checking out, take care.
okay this is the most helpful video ever
Nice job! I built a similar one to Alex's using tubing instead of pipe with a stainless burner and an .030 mig tip. The placement of the tip is adjustable longitudinally the entire length of the tube, it does make a big difference in the placement. I do believe when you get that stuck in the forge you will be able to open the air intake WAY open without it going out. I was able to melt metal with mine. Thanks for your efforts in making your videos for us 👍
Thanks for the information I think what I'm going to do is build a longer threaded stem so that I can adjust the gas inlet up and down a little more to test it out, another subscriber suggested I make the flair adjustable as well, so many good ideas I don't know where to start. Thanks for checking out take care.
BIG DOG FORGE Yes, I would guess your mig tip is a little deep in the tube. You could gain a little by dumping the pipe cap and weld a 1/4 inch nut on the end of your pipe that the mig tip screws onto. I made mine adjustable in all aspects so I could use this burner to develop a baseline for each individual forge when I build them, then build a fixed burner on the specs that I saw worked for each. I could send you a pict of mine if you wanted. Your flame pattern looked pretty good to me. I found that a 7 degree flare on the flare tube worked the best in the flame pattern, but now we're splitting hairs.
Van Der Hoof man, do you have a video of your burner?? I really love this one from big dog, but I want one that is more reliable, so I can use it on every day forge and to make Damascus steel as well... cheers!
that is awesome, great video!
Thanks Doug and thanks for checking out the video I appreciate it, take care.
Hey Tim - love your videos and ironically I am in the middle of building my propane forge so timing was helpful. Thanks for sharing and good luck with your new burner.
Thanks Rick, I'll be posting videos on rebuilding both forges this weekend, if there's any thing I can do to help let me know. Good luck and take care my friend, by the way the coil spring hold downs were awesome to keep up the good work.
Thanks Tim.
Legend I needed a build thanks heaps
You're welcome Greg, thanks for tuning in.
I like it, I was going to buy one, but I think I will make it instead. Thanks for the how too, really really helpful
Thanks David, good luck with your build I hope it turns out well. And thanks for watching I do appreciate it.
Dang, nice build!
Thank you very much and thanks for tuning in.
One thing about making the bridge so tall, if you need to raise the tip, can always put a skirt on the airgate.
Nice work brother I set the mig tip lower in the bell to help withe Venturi effect, used a .35 tip at 9 psi on the reg. It is a beast!!
Thank you sir that's awesome information Sid thanks for passing it along, I am convinced that need a larger tip so I will probably change that out during forge build. Thanks for tuning in and take care.
Nice work!!
Thanks Tom.
Being 4 yrs ago, probably ready for a new rebuild, 2 things I think might help, a two part paint under the name "Thermo-Guard", supposed to be able to insulate an egg from cooking while a torch applied. And a couple of castable refractories, one is a mix of portland, sand, clay, and red brick broken down into pea gravel and dust. The other is aircrete, concrete mixed with a foam made from dish soap and water, can find out recipes for both easily on youtube.
Very nice!
Thank you.
I think your pretty cool too thanks for the vid
Thank you Gregory I appreciate all the kind words. Take care and be safe.
great video thanks
Thanks for checking out Bret, have a good one.
nice build brother....I want a lathe like that. Need some dedicated space in the garage - maybe after the kids leave...
Beautiful
Bad ass burner though.
you have done an amazing ability to make things im impressed i made a burner out of barbeque parts and my air compressor as i cant afford to buy a forge burner as well nice work
Good job on the burner grayem, necessity is the mother of invention and I love to hear about how people overcame a problem to continue moving forward using what they have at hand, good job. Thanks for watching and have a good one.
Great build! To Roger Pemberton, a burner needs a flare for the combustion to stabilize. I just finished a two burner forge modeled after Alecs, but these burners are brilliant Tim, and they burn a lot better than the ones I made, which are Ron Reil copies. Looks like I'll be pulling them apart to copy your build... It looks like yours will reach welding temps easy with a slight bit of tuning!
Keep up the good work, loving the videos!
Thanks Mike and thanks for the input I do appreciate it I agree a little bit of tuning and this burner should do pretty well, I guess we'll find out in the forge rebuild video stay tuned, and thanks for watching
That is awesome seat of the pants fabrication as expected from a blacksmith !!:}
Thanks J. And thanks for checking it out.
Brill build, the mig tip was positioned right, it's real important that the gas is shooting down the pipe central, that's the good thing in using a lathe everything is central and accurate, it's pulling in so much oxygen coz it's 1.5" opening, 1 1/4 better, but coz it's choked it's fine, again great job.
I Love your videos they are pretty good !! Like
Thank you very much and thanks for watching.
next burner you build, use the lathe to remove the threads of the bell end and smooth the radii of the bell.... excellent work, just something I thought could be improved
Looked good from here.
Thanks man.
Another nice informative video
Thank Andres, and thanks for watching.
mine works best on 030 035was a bit much and as always thank you for your time in making great videos for us to enjoy and learn from.how you did the choke was great thanks again Tim
Thank you Rick, I'm going to give it a try the way it is but I'll probably have to step up to 030 I think you're probably right it will work better that way, but we'll figure that out when we get there. Thanks for tuning in.
Excellent work! You won't have to change anything on your burner.. it will stay lit once it's in the forge and you can open up the air to its potential. Blown burners have the same issue.. Won't stay lit outside the forge.
Thanks for the video. ..
Thanks for watching, and you are correct in the forge it works perfectly. Thanks again.
Great job using commonly available parts. What would you have done differently if you wanted to use it for welding?
Nice work, your experiment works great!👍
Thanks Vernon I hope it works as well in the forge. Thanks for watching and be safe.
BIG DOG FORGE I'm looking forward to getting my Devil Forge running by next month. I retired 3/3/16 just picked up a part-time job at a big box store so I can buy more toys! Bought a cheep tig/plasma cutter. Going to put heat/AC in my garage. then by a 200amp mig. I like working metal as much as wood. Couple years I'll make some stuff to sell. Life is exciting! I worked 37 years as a industrial painter! I'll try a Damascus knife just for the fun of it. I would like to make a 10 foot with arch rod iron fence. Im kinda jack of all trades master of none! Lol
I see people like you that do great work and you make it look pleasant! 37 years and I'm still alive but my Guardian Angel has put in some overtime! Lol
Thanks I look forward to your next adventure!
vernon slatton very good information thank a lot
Nice build Big Dog. I have done similar and a couple of things that work for me are if you can turn an inside taper in the flare it helps keep the flame blowing out due to an increase in low pressure in that area. Also if you hook the completed burner up to water first then you can ensure the flow from the mig tip is directly down the centre of the body and tune if required. all good. Love the no fuss approach you take.
Hello Michael the burner is now up and running and I took your advice and ran waters through it and it worked out well I was also able to turn the taper on the inside of the flair thank you so much for the suggestion it really helped it no longer goes out. Thanks for the input take care.
BIG DOG FORGE My pleasure Big Dog. looking forward to more great videos. Take care. Cheers Michael.
honestly, your setup looks better made than what Alex Steele has. the disk on Alex's burner wobbles, maybe I'm being picky. another great build!
Thanks Wade, thanks for the vote of confidence I appreciate that ,and thanks for tuning in
LIKE COMMENT SUB Well done Sir . Your casual manner as you throw together one of the BEST forge burners (10th video) I have seen on my mission to Blacksmith with my son is a testament to just how skilled you are. Were just getting started and I was going to buy a burner for the 75 Gall propane tank I have turned into a foundry. But after watching this I am absolutely making my own. Again well done Sir !!
Thanks 👍
Excelente trabajo BIG DOG FORG aré una réplica para mis trabajos de cuchillos estoy haciendo una pequeña forja y este trabajo que hiciste me fue de gran ayuda gracias por compartir tus conocimientos estoy suscripto al canal saludo desde Bariloche Argentina 🇦🇷
Muchas gracias por mirar y por las amables palabras, cuídate y mantente a salvo.
@@BIGDOGFORGE gracias igualmente
I've found any threaded joints down stream from the valve don't really need to be sealed. After all, whenever the valve is opened, the gas is freely flowing out the orifice, hence no real pressure builds up to be contained. The teflon tape used near the heat actually melts and is drawn into the threads and past by capillary action. This is where that mysterious wisp of tape comes from. You may notice it being colored grey, when the initial color was white or yellow. I am going to copy your design, thank you Big Dog.
Thanks for the information I do appreciate it, this is the best burner I have ever built for myself I hope it works out as well for you.
Thanks for watching and have a good one.
Very cool....I want a lathe.
Really enjoying your videos I heard you say you paid 80cents a pound for your scrap. I guess I'm pretty lucky the yards in RI/CT. Charge 32cents a pound and then if you have a bunch left over they will buy it back. This makes it very reasonable to build presses and power hammers and the like. Thanks for the videos
Thanks for watching Justin, wow that sounds like an awesome deal on scrap, since I made this video the scrap prices have actually dropped around here to 72¢ a pound which is good but man you've got the screaming deal going. Thanks for tuning in and take care.
BIG DOG FORGE I actually bought 700 lbs today for 200$ including a 3x5.5 ar plate 14" long for an anvil I'm building so it dropped here too less than 30 cents. I also picked up the h- beam for my forging press
Good call on the stainless steel. I made my first one with black pipe flare and it melted right off haha.
freaking GENIUS Tim! i cant believe it worked first try! im totally jealous haha, everyone seems to have a lathe :( mines about a 15 hour drive away. gotta get my truck going, test drive it, make sure im gunna get there, then go get it. the only thing i dont like is ive noticed my tools are rusting in the shop pretty bad... thinking its from the forge creating condensation from cold to hot and back to cold, too quickly... gotta wd40 and scrub my drill press especially! im wondering if insulation would help that issue...
in any case Tim, cheers bud! i think i need to make a couple burners like that... would definitely cut the noise level down, and maybe use less propane...
A Brother how have you been hope things are going well, the other forge has a T. Rex style burner and makes a lot of noise this one seems much quieter and it looks like it may actually put out more heat can't wait to get the forge put together and test it out, good luck with a truck I hope the runs OK, man cannot live on drill press alone. Take care man will talk to you soon.
I've built the David hammer style burner, I'd like to build one of these to compare heat output love those old lathes I'm jealous!!
I do love that lathe it works really well and it looks cool just sitting in the shop, I also build a David Hammer style burner I could never get it quite right I got it to work but it just never produced the heat that I needed in comparison this one seems to be light years ahead, but I'll just have to wait and see until the forge is rebuild. Thanks for watching and take care
Outstanding. I like this design...I'd had nearly the same thing in my head but watching your build nailed down a few blurry thoughts in my mind. I've read where you're considering a larger fuel jet (makes sense) but would tapered air cap for finer adjustable air flow be overkill? That was one of the thoughts I had bouncing around...that and an adjustable/tunable chamber flare.
Once again, outstanding! You produce excellent tutorials and you're videos are quite addictive. New subscriber, Kenny
I think you could have taken off the threads on the intake bell for smoother air flow, but that is all I have to say, nice build.
I actually like the intake design, nice and big, overly large but good for air intake.
This design of burner is my favorite.
hey man, This is an amazing build. I wish I had access to the tools to do this build. Would you be willing to build and sell 2 of these burners?
That is bad ass I would have never thought that would work lol very clever and good way to not buy oxygen... would that work for oxygen/acetylene torch
Man! That's a pretty forge. If you decide to sell it or know where more are, I'd love to get one.
Again I enjoyed this content, I think I would just re-brick your forge may cost but I think you will find it easier to rebuild in the future.
I like the idea of re-bricking and I certainly have plenty of bricks but I also have 1/2 dozen bags of castable refractory. So I'm kind of on the fence. But I do agree it would be much easier to rebuild in the future, going to have to puzzle over this one for a while. Thanks for the input Scott take care and be safe.
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Hey tim, nice burner ! I am in process of building the alex Steele's forge..and like you I've checked out gameco... expensive! Would you be interested in build 2 of those burners for me and how much would the cost be plus the shipping to indiana ??
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Great job one of the best burner builds on you tube. I must give it a go. How does the flare hold up.
Thanks Paul, just started using it but the flair seems to be doing pretty well it's built out of some heavy stainless pipe. Thanks for tuning and take care.
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If it's still tight and not abused, that's actually a hell of a nice lathe.
Tim, I may have missed it, but whats the MAX Pressure on the regulator? I've saved about 10, videos on how to build. Yours is the finest! One thing I think I'd do is put a spring on it to hold tension on the air inlet just to keep it from turning on its own. :)
My regulator goes to 50 lbs,
The spring is a good idea, I have the genuine gameco burner and the choke does like to wander a bit! I fixed it with a bit of loctite after setting to the desired pos.
great vidoe build check out Michael Porter's book on gas burners for Forges n kilns great reference material I use a extra piece of kio wool and a fire brick as a disposable bottom then there's no need to reline after damacus work keep the videos coming my friend
Good info Wade I appreciate it, the wife said she found Michael porter's book on Amazon and ordered it for me, hope she got the right one. I guess great minds think alike the plan was to come up with some sort of replaceable bottom but you've given me a starting point thank you sir and thanks for watching.
"What’s the worst that can happen...?" Begins plumbing a highly combustible/splodey gas XD amazing job all the same :)
nice job man and not to hard to make, why buy it if you can make it,thanks man!
Thanks Jared, it wasn't too difficult to build that all and it seems to work pretty well, thanks for checking out the video, take care and be safe
Borax works well as a steel flux??? Asking because borax is easy to get but I have no idea where to get actual steel foraging flux or what I would be looking for...
I am curious, I have never forged with gas, the occasional rose bud on Acty. Coal and charcoal here, and just minimally. How much fuel do these gas forges use? An 18 - 20# tank here runs about $20.00 US. How long of a fire can you get off one? Thanks.
Wonder if you could make knife scales from the flux 😂!!! Great video as always bud!!!!
Oh great now you got me thinking about how I can turn burnt flux into knife scales.
You can do it Tim you are the master
I used o.25 works good
Good to know thanks.
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I would have went and made the mig tip height adjustable as well to find what gives the best flame. Would have put a swivel elbow on the end to allow for this and a longer threaded pipe for the mig tip/choke.
put a sacrificial stainless pan in the bottom when forge welding to keep the flux off the floor
Here is an old machinist's trick from an old machinist. Never, ever, leave the chuck key in the lathe chuck after removing the workpiece. Tricks like this are how young machinists become old machinists.
Yes use the smallest mig tip