Coke Forge Build

[Micktoon]

Looking canny Rob , you will be getting used to the new welding gear doing this project

 Cheers Mick

[RobWilson]

Cheers Lads   , its good to see there is some interest in my messing about   

 Well I made some progress with the ash dump flap today  .


I reused the material from the not so good flap , yes I could just cut a new bit but why waste materials . 









Just need to stick a handle /lever on it , now its pie and chips time ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,or may be toad in the hole .   



Rob

[RobWilson]

I decided to have  toad in the hole for tea 


Bent up a handle from 20mm bar  ,two actually did not like the first design . 


Bobs bending pins (made about 20 years ago ) 





First handle ,the  one I did not like the look of for this job .




so I bent up another on other end of the bar .


 

and welded to flap .



A bit clean up here and there and thats that for the bottom part , hood tomorrow 


Rob

[EdK]

Rob,

Nice welds. What type of welder did you use on the ash flap pieces?

Ed

[RobWilson]

(11-16-2015, 06:07 PM)EdK Wrote: Rob,

Nice welds. What type of welder did you use on the ash flap pieces?

Ed

Hi Ed 

I used my old MIG with 0.6mm mild steel wire ,I nearly swapped the real for SS but decided it was not worth it for a few welds and its just forge at the end of the day . 

Rob

[RobWilson]

Well today did not go to plan , I was planning on doing the hood today but it has rained hard all day , I have to cut the 8x4 sheet up outside . 


So I stripped the forge and cleaned up the stand ,finished the welding and removed the weld splatter . 

 


And a group shot of parts made so far 




Hopefully the weather at the weekend will be better . 


Rob

[krv3000]

brill as per rob but I think we is getting bad weather at the weekend

[RobWilson]

Evening Lads 



Well I managed to get a wee bit of work done on the forge hood , I am using 1mm galvanized sheet steel to make the hood . 


My state of the art sheet metal folder , 





A length of 50x50 and 60x25 flat bar LOL , does the job one day I may make something better .  





And thats as far as I got this afternoon , just tack welded with the old MIG for now , I will seam welded it when I get the last section in .




Cheers Rob 

[krv3000]

just brill rob

[RobWilson]

A wee update , tonight I made the hood corner panel . 




Slowly getting there


Rob