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PekkaNF:
Welcome Paul.
Good to see that ou have diverse intrests.
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Hehe - it was bought for the office where I used to work; when I left, they moved, and the new office doesn't have room for it... so I re-took possession. It's a "Flavia Barista" machine, uses pouches & makes quite a few drinks, mainly tea, coffee, chocolate & a few herbal things; and a pretty good Espresso too...
So.. that makes 4 coffee machines on site! I should probably get rid of the three old ones...
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There never is too few coffee machines, my daughter jokes that our kitchen liiks like three sigles live in this house: One Rancilio Silvia espresso machien + cofee grinder, one one-cup filter coffee maker and it's own coffee grinder and one hot watter dispencer. And then we have one tucked somewhere standard cofee maker and many mocka pots that we actually use time to time.
Paul got me thinking that would forege fit on my back yard.
Pekka
paulc1:
Hi Pekka, Thank you for the welcome,😊 your house sounds like a coffee nirvana.
The little Gas forge was easy to make but I have since seen them for sale on Ebay quite cheaply with a proper burner and lining, mine worked okay but the plaster of paris and sand lining cracked and fell away pretty much after every use but a nice little project none the less. I would say go for it :thumbup:
Because I was using a gas/butane mix blowtorch the metal was not really getting hot enough so drawing the metal out took lots of hammering, which understandably drew the odd complaint from neighbours so I have shelved it.
Paul
PekkaNF:
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Because I was using a gas/butane mix blowtorch the metal was not really getting hot enough so drawing the metal out took lots of hammering, which understandably drew the odd complaint from neighbours so I have shelved it.
Paul
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As your neighbour, I would be uppset to if you forged blades too cold - it could cause all sorts of problems like cracks and delaminations. :wave:
tom osselton:
--- Quote from: paulc1 on October 14, 2018, 04:56:38 AM ---Hi Pekka, Thank you for the welcome,😊 your house sounds like a coffee nirvana.
The little Gas forge was easy to make but I have since seen them for sale on Ebay quite cheaply with a proper burner and lining, mine worked okay but the plaster of paris and sand lining cracked and fell away pretty much after every use but a nice little project none the less. I would say go for it :thumbup:
Because I was using a gas/butane mix blowtorch the metal was not really getting hot enough so drawing the metal out took lots of hammering, which understandably drew the odd complaint from neighbours so I have shelved it.
Paul
I wonder what would happen if the powdered fireclay was mixed 50/50 with the plaster.
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paulc1:
Hi Tom, that would probably work much better however it was when I was looking at pizza oven fireclay and refractory bricks that I discovered professionally made knife forges complete with high pressure burner (which I know now is just as important as the lining) that will also get hot enough to forge weld for about £130 sterling, so I think I would now go down this route if I were doing it again because the biggest disappointment was not being able to get the metal hot enough to draw out properly.
Definately a bit more research on my part before starting the project would have helped but I was just too excited to get started when I found an empty calor gas bottle in a skip :)
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