I finally got my forge to heat evenly after a year of cold spots

I kept having a cold spot on the right side of my coal forge that made drawing out steel a pain. My buddy in St. Louis told me to just pack the coal tighter on that side and leave the center a bit looser. I tried it last week and ran a test bar, and the whole piece heated to a perfect orange in about 8 minutes flat. I was totally overthinking the air flow. Has anyone else fixed a heating problem with something that simple?

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mark_nguyen954mo ago

Took you a year to figure out packing coal? I spent three months convinced my anvil was cursed.

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shah.evan4mo ago

Cursed anvil is a new one. Honestly, some things just take the time they take. My setup was weird, airflow was all wrong. Took a ton of small tries to get the coal bed right. Calling it cursed is easier than admitting the craft is just hard sometimes.

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