[KrashKing405]

I've read alot about the Reil style burners, but I saw one that had a Tweco tip in it. Anyone have a link to a build log or instructions, or even just a shopping list?

[sailandoar]

http://www.amazon.com/Gas-Burners-Fo...8912246&sr=1-1
David W. Wilson, 10 February 2004
Michael Porter’s fine illustrations match his excellent writing style. "Gas Burners for Forges, Furnaces, & Kilns" is absolutely the best.

Book Description
"Gas Burners for Forges, Furnaces, & Kilns" is a do-it-yourselfers dream book, showing beginners how to make highly efficient gas burners inexpensively. These burners use simple gas accelerators as their central operating principle. All that is needed is a $2 MIG tip and some plumbing parts. This eliminates the need for a blower to supply combustion air, allowing the burners to be built in any size. Burners are featured, which are small enough to be used for a jewelry torch or large enough to heat any ceramic kiln. Because these burners are both powerful and portable, they can be combined with low cost space age insulating materials and common containers to build light compact heating equipment. Also described is a blacksmith's forge that can be carried anywhere and stored under a workbench; a portable metal melting furnace; a portable farrier's forge; a portable glass furnace/glory hole; and a mobile hot-work station that aids in combining several crafts. The burners and equipment provide an inexpensive way to get started in blacksmithing, foundry work, ceramics, or glasswork. General information and specific designs are given, enabling the craftsperson to build equipment tailored to their own desires.

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Good book, he has worked with reil on burner design.

You can buy parts for a porter design tube burner and some other design burners from:
http://www.zoellerforge.com/tubeburners.html

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For what looks to be a GREAT burner!!!
http://www.hybridburners.com/

quote from webpage: "This page shows the results of my work with two other metal workers, Ron Reil and Mike Porter."

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personal note: I an running a 3/4" zoeller/porter burner now and if foundy things keep on progressing I will get a hybrid burner .... ? 1" ?.

[Craigpat]

try this link for home made foundry and propane fuel oil burners . pretty interesting stuff
http://www.backyardmetalcasting.com/index.html

[chuggins143]

I've actually built two of these...
http://www.backyardmetalcasting.com/oliverburner1.html
...one for me and one for a friend at work that started me down the foundry path. The only difficult part was finding the correct drill bit, but once you have that it's cake... if you can do a little fab work. I used a pressure regulator for a standard air line to regulate my pressure... you're not supposed to use those, but I figured that for a test run it shouldn't be too bad.
Later,
C

[Tristar500]

I recently received Michael Porter’s book and I think it's a great resource. He did a great job of showing how a burner could be built by someone with little to no experience and therefore should be a great help to a lot of folks.

Not to toot my our horn too much but I would prefer a machinist's drawing and let the fabrication process be up to me.

Reason for this is because I have several CNC machines and tools that the author assumes the reader has no access to.

Again, great book, Just wish it had some mechanical drawings.


Lawrence