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Blacksmith and Metal Working Forum => Blacksmith and Metalworking Forum => Topic started by: Branson on February 23, 2013, 09:13:34 AM
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I found a photo of one of these all ready to work. It was sold on eBay in 2009. Don't know the price it fetched.
I also found a contemporary drawing of a different bench top forge that's interesting. I wonder if the one in
the photo originally had a heat shield for the drive gear.
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Bench top, I'll buy that, but why? The heat, have to cover the bench with tin, and have to have a low enough bench so the fire wouldn't be in your face. I am wondering, maybe aboard ship? There was a smith aboard the whaler going after the White Whale. Put it on the floor but below decks, bolt it down, just a thought.
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Bench top, I'll buy that, but why? The heat, have to cover the bench with tin, and have to have a low enough bench so the fire wouldn't be in your face. I am wondering, maybe aboard ship? There was a smith aboard the whaler going after the White Whale. Put it on the floor but below decks, bolt it down, just a thought.
These seem more like riveting forges to me. I'd think they were too small for ship board use -- what little I've seen of ship board forges were a lot bigger. More likely for farm use, seems to me. The feet have holes for attaching them to something, maybe just a stand rather than a bench per se.
Maybe somebody will find an old advertisement that gives enough information.
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Look at this page for a little bit of information out of an old Champion Blower and Forge Co. catalog.
http://www.anvilfire.com/bookrev/champ_CD_index.htm
About halfway down the page.
Hope this helps
Bill D.
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Now that's interesting -- "Government or Miners and Prospectors Forge." I might have to make one of these boxes for mine.
I wonder how old the idea is. The 1841 mountain howitzer forge collapsed and packed into its box, and sat on top of one of the sides when in use.