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Saturday, October 2, 2010
Sucess with brake drum forge !!
Hi all. I have tried the brake drum forge seen on many Youtube videos and finally got it to work.
It is set up with a vacuum cleaner on blow air feeding into a PVC pipe [ mistake number 1 ] fastened with gaffer tape [ mistake number 2 ] to some cycle frame tubing cut and 45' and rewelded to form a pipe and chimney , top of chimney is covered in gauze [ mistake number 3 ] the brake drum is supported above this on fire bricks [ see photo 1 ]
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