how's it going jerem rush with rush fire forge a tonight I'm going to show you how I build my propane forges so that you can see the process I go through and you may not be able do it exactly like I do just based on what materials are available or which situation is but you can do something very similar and so I'm going to show you how to build a low-cost a very effective propane Forge okay so here is the material that I start with for the forge body this is a piece of seven by seven square tubing I've used various thicknesses anywhere from eight to quarter-inch 3/16 is my favorite not too heavy not too bulky still offers good insulation especially for your low cost basic Forge but again let me stress it is before just going to heat up metal in a great way you could Forge any kind of tough steels high carbon steels now ways and everything like that you're not going to have any problems run into heat matter of fact right here is my fortune so we're going to mark Center so we can drill a hole and then I've got my mark okay so that's where the burner is going to go so let's get a whole I'm using my drill press here this is a the hole saw with carbide tips you don't need carbide tips you can use a body metal saw I just find the carbide works a little faster and so that makes them any of these that's what I do this is automatic transmission fluid you can use that to lube it up a bit and preserve the life of your hole saw and if you don't have a drill press you can just put your whole saw in your drill here's the hole a little chunk that came out of it all right so now we're just going to put the ceramic blanket inside the forge this is seven inch square tubing so and it's nine inches long so that I have cut this nine inches wide and it is 28 inches long that's the matter it might sound a little funny at first but that is the math so you take this and you set it inside and bring it all the way to the bottom of the forge now if you notice I put the hole that I drilled it's over here this so the top is up here this is the bottom so put that there and then I'm going to fold and make a pretty tight corner and tuck that in there and I'm going to go around and make some nice tight corners and get that in there all right so now that I've got all those in there I'm just going to make some creases okay this does not have to be exact we can wiggle it in any way you just kind of squeeze it push it down in there and so now that's what we've got doesn't quite cut it so I've got this board just make sure I get all these sides so now they're all nice and flat so that's what we've got much better much better so we still have the whole day that's covered up we want to put a flame through there so I'll put the board back in now remember we're just using the same inch and a half I don't think I mentioned that is an inch and a half hole saw I'm just going to drill through there I got to make sure I push down because there's a drill bit in the center of this thing and that's going to bore down the wood a little bit so I can finish cutting through the rest of this ceramic blanket so nice clean-cut that's good so well yeah yeah you can kind of see that I put my hand back there there you go one little tip I want to show you is that if you'll just reach in there turn this thing around while pushing your finger against the edge of nmuk blanket what we'll do it will cause it to have a more cone-shaped effect just on the inside of this hole with that ceramic blanket so it kind of continues the flare that the burner has and it helps to not get some of the little rough edges that surround a blanket in the way of your jet so that's going to make it a little more smooth okay the next step involves a little welding so what I've got is these two straps is just a little bit of flat bar and all this is going to do is we're just going to put a strap along the front and the strap along the back and that's going to hold in our fire brick floor to keep that thing from for moving out of there so I have a jig done made with that because I make enough of these you can just measure you'll be fine so I just made this little jig it flips over there we go and allows me to set this in place there we go right where I want it just weld it up all right that's one I can brush it off and now for the second one you'll go ahead and slide your fire break in there kind of jiggle it around push that blanket back a little bit then if you got a you got a bad cut and you're on your tube or whatever it is you're putting in a little too small then you'll be able to weld this thing just out slightly where the fire brick puts it so mine are dead-on 9 inches which is another reason I like 9 inches because fire bricks are exactly 9 inches I like fire bricks with the floor there are other things that insulate better surround the cardboard refractory things like that will insulate better but a fire brick in my opinion there's nothing better for the price that brick cost like you know dollar and a half to three dollars spending on where you go they're cheap they're easy to replace and they do insulate really well like I said not as well as some things but they do they do a great job and so for your general blacksmiths that's gonna be awesome all right so now that's what we got and so this may not be like when you do it this may not be dead even this brick and so usually what you do just kind of push it on that ceramic blanket and it just needs to compress a little more see because you can have a nice flat floor you don't want your material rolling around but that's it so far let's go to the next step this is the burner that I teach you how to build in another video so look for that if you haven't seen it all we're going to do we're going to take off this stainless steel producer off the bottom I'm going to line it up on top I get it to where I feel like it's lined up or it looks good and then all I do is I push it past it a little bit to confirm yep that's where the hole is if you forward back side to side so I feel real confident that is dead on top of where I want to weld it and you might ask about welding stainless to regular steel now if you're talking about a structural application if you're you know like pulling trailers and stuff you got to know what you're doing as far as a forge there's going to be any weight put on this thing we're not worried about that at all this is going to hold strong who's gonna hold strong for a long time there we go got a couple of tack weld so it holds it in place and we're just going to go all the way around there we go now keep in mind I am NOT a welder so you might look at my technique and say hey you do that a lot better I'm sure I could but for me as a hobby of some cool is that make sure you do this in a well-ventilated area please please please safety is super important so now all we do just thread this in here we do not need pipe tape down here we don't need anything down there because that does not need to be airtight gas tight whatever you want to call it I'm just cranking on the top is burner so you see that I'm just cranking on it gives it a lot of leverage like make this real tight see that this is very basic what I wanted to make here was the exact forge that I was looking for when I first started in smithing I couldn't find anything that would fit the bill for me that didn't cost like way more than I want to pay so this is a basic Forge it gets like I said it gets really hot I'm a professional blacksmith I teach classes all the time and this is what I use this is exactly what I use it gets the job done this is not something that you're going to take competitions and it's going to you know be so impressive to people it's just got one burner it's just a little Forge but I forged everything in here I forged my tongs in here I forged my chisels in here at four it's all my little project in here now I don't do big railings or anything like that so I mean obviously it's not going to fit the bill for everything it's just a small Forge but if you're just getting started or even if you're not just getting started if this is the type of size you need this is fantastic and it's great price so I actually build these and sell these so if you want to if you want one of these go ahead and contact me my facebook page is rush fire Forge you try to contact me through YouTube in the comments I'm generally looking at those but it's starting to get the point we're getting a lot and so it's hard to keep up with so my facebook page is the best alright so this is the connection kit and this fitting here fits right on to the end of the valve here and so and then cares where you going to propane tank so this connection kit comes with the forge that I sell so you're ready to plug-and-play when you build this thing and you get this all hooked up this is a 30 psi regulator that's really important to notice it's 30 psi you need a regulator and regulator from a barbecue grill is not going to do it those usually 5 to 10 I like the 30 psi I control the flow of the gas with the valve okay I control the pressure of the gas with the regulator pressure flow rate are very different I honestly couldn't even explain it to you it's complicated and I don't even really understand all you know like there's there's aspects I definitely don't understand myself but all I know is they're different and if you're trying to control the flow of your gas with your valve excuse me the pressure of your gas with your with your valve with the flow of your gas with your regulator you can't do that the other way around and they are correlated so you will see you will see that it works somewhat but go with a 30 psi fixed regulator I don't like a decibel regulator Steph just means my opinion but that's what I do for my forges so again there's the Forge there that I just built and showed you how to build there's the forge that I use it's exactly the same and it all connects to that tank oh and one important piece about these connection kits they will connect it to suppress the light fitting the pol fitting and so it fits inside these big tanks it will still fit inside these little barbecue tanks but the barbecue tanks also have Acme thread I don't know if you can see that here's one here it's got the Acme threads I don't I don't I don't do the ones with the Acme threads because these big ones do not come with acne threads so you can actually get that I selves can hook up to any propane tank and look at that that's what you're going to get and if you buy it for me you can literally set it up and be forging inside five minutes of unhooking it thanks for joining me in this video I hope you liked these forges they're really good if you've got any questions just let me know keep in mind though most of your questions are going to be answered by me asking you which part of the video did you not follow which step did you miss so just keep that in mind because that's generally where the issue is awesome I'm jarem rush with rush bio-forge and I will see you soon you have a fantastic day