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| Clothing should be only natural fabrics: Leather, Cotton, Wool, etc. Polyester, Acrylic, Nylon, Rayon, and other oil derived fabrics will burn when sparked, and fuse into your skin as they burn. They might have to cut you shirt out of you at the ER! | Clothing should be only natural fabrics: Leather, Cotton, Wool, etc. Polyester, Acrylic, Nylon, Rayon, and other oil derived fabrics will burn when sparked, and fuse into your skin as they burn. They might have to cut you shirt out of you at the ER! | ||
| - | Gloves are very useful for keeping dirt off your hands, but can never be trusted to keep you from getting burnt! You can actually burn yourself worse grabbing a hot piece with a glove than without. Many people (myself included) recommend forging bare handed. Steel only starts to glow visibly at around 800 degrees F. 799 degree steel looks like room temperature steel. Use tongs if you are not absolutely sure something is cool enough to touch. | + | Gloves are very useful for keeping dirt off your hands, but can never be trusted to keep you from getting burnt! You can actually burn yourself worse grabbing a hot piece with a glove than without. Steel only starts to glow visibly at around 800 degrees F. 799 degree steel looks like room temperature steel. Use tongs if you are not absolutely sure something is cool enough to touch. |
| Long pants and closed toed shoes are highly recommended. Hot scale will fall from the anvil and occasionally give you 1st degree burns when it hits bare skin if you happen to have a really large flake come off. | Long pants and closed toed shoes are highly recommended. Hot scale will fall from the anvil and occasionally give you 1st degree burns when it hits bare skin if you happen to have a really large flake come off. | ||
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| + | Eye protection. Things can go flying, and they hurt if they hit you in the eye, hot or cold. | ||
| Keep the gas valve tightly closed unless you are using the forge! | Keep the gas valve tightly closed unless you are using the forge! | ||
| This is the valve on the forge manifold (yellow handle). | This is the valve on the forge manifold (yellow handle). | ||
| - | If anything goes wrong and you are unable to reach this valve. There is a emergency shutoff valve on the wall, it has a blue handle. | + | |
| + | If anything goes wrong and you are unable to reach this valve. There is a emergency shutoff valve on the wall to the left of the forge, along side the hot work table, it has a blue handle. | ||
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| + | If you cannot reach that shutoff, there is another shutoff valve that controls all tools in the forge area. It is further east, along the south wall of the room. It is labeled with a sign that says "main gas shutoff" | ||
| You should be aware of what unburned natural gas smells like (rotten eggs is similar). | You should be aware of what unburned natural gas smells like (rotten eggs is similar). | ||
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| In the event that you smell it: | In the event that you smell it: | ||
| -Immediately stop working | -Immediately stop working | ||
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| -Open the garage door | -Open the garage door | ||
| -Find the source of the leak | -Find the source of the leak | ||
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| + | There is a gas safety alarm in the forge area. It will monitor 2 things we care about: | ||
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| + | #1: Carbon Monoxide: | ||
| + | If too much of this builds up, it kills people | ||
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| + | #2: Explosive Gas: | ||
| ===== Blower speeds ===== | ===== Blower speeds ===== | ||
spacedocumentation/usingthepropaneforge.txt · Last modified: 2020/02/25 17:15 by dan_dude
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