{"id":219,"date":"2018-01-24T23:36:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T23:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.legacystudioproductions.net\/knifemakertraining\/?p=219"},"modified":"2021-01-15T23:39:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T06:39:51","slug":"installment-5-building-a-vertical-welding-forge-wip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacystudioproductions.net\/knifemakertraining\/2018\/01\/24\/installment-5-building-a-vertical-welding-forge-wip\/","title":{"rendered":"Installment #5, Building a Vertical Welding Forge (WIP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the forge curing nicely, I figured I&#8217;d better get busy and build the lid. I cut off a 3&#8243; tall section of the same diameter pipe that I used for the forge body&#8230; split it, then filled in the sides\/gaps with 1\/4&#8243; plywood to make it match the outside diameter of the forge. Laid the form on a piece of plywood, and used nails to ensure everything stayed put. I decided to build the lid just the reverse of the forge&#8230; putting Kawool on the inside, and making the rest out of castable.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bbCodeImage LbImage\" src=\"https:\/\/image.ibb.co\/kbo896\/forgelid1.jpg\" alt=\"[\u200bIMG]\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The pieces of bent rebar will be handles for the lid&#8230; inset into the castable.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bbCodeImage LbImage\" src=\"https:\/\/image.ibb.co\/mHyap6\/forgelid2.jpg\" alt=\"[\u200bIMG]\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next, I mixed up some castable to a very soupy consistency, and basically soaked the Kawool in it. Then I laid the Kawool in the form, and mixed up a thicker batch of castable.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bbCodeImage LbImage\" src=\"https:\/\/image.ibb.co\/mvT3fQ\/forgelid3.jpg\" alt=\"[\u200bIMG]\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bbCodeImage LbImage\" src=\"https:\/\/image.ibb.co\/e6PFp6\/forgelid4.jpg\" alt=\"[\u200bIMG]\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bbCodeImage LbImage\" src=\"https:\/\/image.ibb.co\/fHcDbm\/forgelid5.jpg\" alt=\"[\u200bIMG]\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then it was just a matter of filling the form with castable, and putting the rebar in place.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bbCodeImage LbImage\" src=\"https:\/\/image.ibb.co\/e8xqNR\/forgelid6.jpg\" alt=\"[\u200bIMG]\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bbCodeImage LbImage\" src=\"https:\/\/image.ibb.co\/cMheGm\/forgelid7.jpg\" alt=\"[\u200bIMG]\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I got the castable way more wet then I wanted&#8230; but I guess &#8220;it is what it is&#8221;. Now it&#8217;s just a matter of curing time before I can do anything else. Once I get it in place and fired, I&#8217;ll update the thread with how it works out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the forge curing nicely, I figured I&#8217;d better get busy and build the lid. I cut off a 3&#8243; tall section [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edseditorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacystudioproductions.net\/knifemakertraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacystudioproductions.net\/knifemakertraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacystudioproductions.net\/knifemakertraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacystudioproductions.net\/knifemakertraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacystudioproductions.net\/knifemakertraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/legacystudioproductions.net\/knifemakertraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"https:\/\/legacystudioproductions.net\/knifemakertraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacystudioproductions.net\/knifemakertraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacystudioproductions.net\/knifemakertraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacystudioproductions.net\/knifemakertraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}