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Help, I’m trying to make a gas burner.

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Mr. Woolery:
I use a small two-brick forge for more than 90% of my forging.  The burner for it is a Mag Torch large pencil tip torch head.  I've had people tell me this isn't enough heat to do anything, but I can do a whole lot with it, actually.  Built it to tide me over until I had a big forge built, but that big one only gets used for large projects or straightening steel.

I've got a video of a project up on YT and there's a good shot of the forge in the bit about heat treating at the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld1LROiBL9U

I can make and heat treat a 6" blade with this little forge.  It may be dinky, but it isn't a toy.

You don't always have to make a big burner.  I got mine from Amazon for about $20. 

-Patrick

bubby:
Super easy to build, 1-1/2"-3/4 bell reducer , 10" 3/4" nipple, and another bell reducer. One 3" long 1/4" nipple, coupler and cap, and a .035 mig tip. Drill and tap the 1/4" nipple for the mig tip line it up centered down the 3/4" nipple and tack in place . I used gas rated Teflon tape the yellow one, the reducer at the forge is 3/4"-1"

bubby:
This forge gets to forge welding heats pretty easy

DC:
Why is the pipe so long from the forge to the reducer? How do you control the airflow on your's, others I've seen have a sliding plate on the reducer?

bubby:
DC I built this from a YouTube video and I don't have all the answers for your questions. I built several different ones and this simple one worked the best, has been very efficient and suits me. All I can say if it's not complicated enough build one that is lol. I like the kiss system

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