Smoke, smoke, everywhere...
Allright, I don't actually have a real shop. My woodworking and blacksmithing is done out of my garage. To do blacksmithing, I pull the stuff out of the garage, set it up in the driveway and get to work. Occasionally, I have a problem like I had last night.
When I shut down for the night, I put some water on the fire but not too much. If the fire is cooled too rapidly, the forge may potentially crack from the sudden temperature change. So when I put the forge back into the garage, it is still pretty hot. Usually, without a good flow of air, the fire will go out on its own.
Last night I'm sitting in the house several hours after closing down the forge when I begin to notice the familiar smell of sulphur drifting through the house. I go out to the garage and find the upper half of the garage to be very smoky.
The fire in the forge was not completely out so the coal slowly burned over those hours. Since it is in the forge, there is no real danger(allright, almost no danger) but it is annoying.
Today, I picked up a smoke detector for the garage... Hopefully won't be a problem in the future.
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