If you decide to do hot forging of metal at home, you cannot do without a blacksmith forge. However, buying a factory unit that runs on gas is not cheap. Therefore, for starters, you can get by with a homemade blacksmith forge, which is made of a small propane cylinder and runs on solid fuel.
Such a simple fixture for hot forging can be done with your own hands. To make it, you will need a gas cylinder with a capacity of 27 or 12 liters, depending on the tasks. For example, a smaller cylinder is suitable for forging knives, and a 27-liter can be used to make various art elements from metal.
Blacksmith's forging process
First, you need to unscrew the valve with the valve (if it does not work out, we saw it off with a hand hacksaw for metal). Then we rinse the gas cylinder with water to wash all the condensate from the inside. Next, we cut off the upper handle and the support shoe, which is located in the lower part, with a grinder.
After that, we cut the cylinder along the weld into two halves. We clean the edges of the slice with a grinder to remove burrs and irregularities. We weld three supporting "legs" to one half - one straight line and two at a slight angle. To the inner walls you need to weld bolts and screws (or just pieces of bars of suitable length). In the lower part of the gas cylinder body we make a hole for air supply.
Then we install a wooden box, and fill all the voids between the walls and the box with a solution. We cut nine identical segments from the steel round timber. We connect them to each other by welding, using two transverse "bars" of rods of smaller diameter. We weld three legs to the bottom of the resulting grate and install it instead of a wooden box.
