Subject: Greetings! (and questions)

From: [email-masked] (MR WILLIAM A HOCHELLA)
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 07:05:00, -0500

To All,
The answers are:
You do not have to line the forge.
A chimney is unnecessary.
You will have a hard time seeing the temperature colors exactly. What 
you need is a bucket of darkness. 
Just get a 5 gallon metal pail and set it on its side on a stand near 
the forge. It helps.
I don't know.

Hochewa

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From: "Bruce M. Freeman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 08:26:52 -0400

At 10:02 PM 6/20/96 EDT, Michael Spencer wrote:
>> I'm new to this mailing list and to blacksmithing - ,,,
>
>Welcome!
>
>> - if I set up outdoors, is there any reason for me to put a chimney on
>> the forge?
>

Some sort of smoke control is advisable.  Once while demonstrating outside
at a crafts fair, the smoke from our forge insisted on travelling
horizontally - to the annoyance of the neigbors (who were VERY tolerant,
considering...).  Fortunately the forge we'd borrowed for this event had a
"cover" which we positioned downwind.  This was just enough to deflect the
smoke upwards and out of harms way.  A side-mount flue would have been welcome.
Bruce