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    Easy furnace burner for propane forging

    I have been using a coal forge for along time and decided this week I want to try out using propane. So I sat down and sketched out what I thought would be the easiest burner assembly that wouldn't cost a lot to make and wanted to share it with you all. I came up with this,,, It is constructed of a black iron pipe and went together in about 4 hours once I gathered all my material. First I took a 12" piece of 1" black iron and drilled a 11/16 hole in it for the 3/8 pipe to slide threw. Then I drilled 3-3/8 hole 5/8 of an inch apart. The 4" piece of 3/8 pipe gets a hole dead center with a #57 drill bit. One side of the 4" nipple gets a cap and the other side gets a 90*. The 8" nipple comes out of the 90* and gets a coupling threaded on it then the 3/8 mipx3/8 flare threads into that. This is where your regulator hose threads onto from your propane tank. Last I locked the burner in a vice and made sure the 1" pipe and 3/8" pipe where parallel and welded around the hole where the pipes run threw each other. I am currently waiting on my new furnace to cure and when it does I will be sure to post a video of this burner in action. I will also post a material list below in case anybody is interested in building one of these for themselves. All in all with the regulator I have about $65 in this including the regulator which I will post a link of the exact one I bought from ACE Hardware in the parts list.

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    FURNCE BURNER PARTS LIST
    1"x12" Black Iron nipple
    1"x1 1x4" Black Iron reducer coupling
    3/8"mipx3/8"male flare coupling
    3/8" black iron coupling
    3/8"x8" black iron nipple
    3/8" black iron 90*
    3/8"x4" black iron nipple
    3/8" black iron cap
    Yellow (for gas) thread tape
    11/16" drill bit (to drill threw 1" pipe for 3/8" pipe to go threw)
    3/8" drill bit (for breather holes)
    #57 drill bit (gas hole in 3/8" pipe)

    Link to regulator,,,,
    https://www.acehardware.com/departme...content=Grills
    3/8"

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    I will be interested to see how this goes as I will need to make one soon. I have seen other styles of burners before but not like this. Looks quite easy to construct.

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    What size is a #57 drill bit please?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Drew1966 View Post
    What size is a #57 drill bit please?
    Here you go Drew.
    http://www.smithbearing.com/images/p...ionalChart.pdf
    And I found that on google faster than it would have taken you to type your question

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    Thanks Phil.

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    Good morning Very interesting ,I would like to see the end result. I do have a oil burner, got any ideals? Good Luck AL

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    Good job, I need to do something like that myself

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    I would like to see a short video of it in action when you get the time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by high-side View Post
    I would like to see a short video of it in action when you get the time.

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    I should have a video uploaded to youtube by the weekend Pat. I will post a link here once I get it done.
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    Cool, thanks!

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