Truck rim forge

[Smoke_Ring]

Quite some time ago I saw the plans to make a forge from an old truck rim. I have found a rim but now I don't remember where I saw the plans. The rim had a pipe coming off the bottom with a "T" and a pipe going out the side. That is all I remember. Does anyone know where I could find the directions to build this forge?
Smoke Ring

 

[blacksmithshoppe]

I wanted to say it was on the ABANA web site but I just looked there and don't see it I think it in the book, " The Blacksmith's Primer". Its got lots of ideas for getting started in Smithing without spending a bunch of money. You may want to go back to the ABANA site and see if you can find the planes there yourself. If nothing else email them and ask. Their real nice people and very willing to help.
Jeff

 

[Wayne Combs]

Smoke Ring,here's a site that has plans using a car brake drum.
[url] www.knifenetwork.com/workshop/tut_coal_forge_warner.shtml[/url]
Hope this helps you out.Wayne.

 

[bwhoffman]

I was going to suggest that! your link does a far better job than I could type here! :thumbsup:

Ive had my brake drum setup foryears and it has worked fine for shoeing and such. A bag of farrier type coal lasts quite awhile and the forge is fairly simple to make.

 

[Smoke_Ring]

That is the one! I thought it was a truck rim not a brake drum. I will have to keep looking to find the drum. If it weren't for the memory lapses it would be boring!
Thanks for the help
Smoke Ring

 

Any salvage yard or brake shop would have a rim in the trash barrel. They try to sell new ones with every brake job that comes through the door, DOT specs and all that.

I made one about 10 years back and it is still going strong in my son's shop. He uses charcoal.

I have one friend that made one from an old wheelbarrow and another that used a cast off bathroom sink. I have also seen a varity of blowers fasioned from everything from a bicycle pump to hair dryers to the heater fan motor from a car.

A friend and I cobbled one together for a quick tempering job once using a Habichi, a battery powered inflater from a coleman airbed and a foot of copper tube! It worked well enough to form and temper a dozen fire steels.

 

[fatboy]

you can make a forge out of a small galv wash tub line it with fire brick and clay and use a pc of 1-1/2" or 2" black pipe and drill some holes in it for the air to come out cap the one end and hook a blower of some sort on the other end

 

Here's the washtub forge link. I built one sorta like this and powered it with a small reversed shopvac. Works pretty good for a small portable forge, but my god that thing will make huge clinkers. Someone suggested cat litter, I used clay mixed with ash and lime. You'll have to reline every so often.

http://64.176.180.203/washtubforge.htm

Sean