81 Inch First Build (and first post)

[Mitchamus]

Re: 81 Inch First Build (and first post)

great job!

[Alter ego]

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Congratulations on getting the key stone in place. It's a moment to crack open a bottle!

Who is the lucky person who gets to crawl inside the oven to clean up the mortar once you have removed the form?

[windage]

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finally, dome done with keys locking in the top! woo hoo!





sweaty job today!




now for the out arch, flue and chimney build...

Roger

[Tscarborough]

Re: 81 Inch First Build (and first post)

Nice! It is going to take you a month to get it heat saturated. but after that...

[windage]

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Those cables are thermocouples, K style..buried at different point on the dome and 3 different depths, shallow(closest to fire) heat, mid brick heat and just under the perlcrete insulation to read "deep" heat.

[windage]

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one more day and I think I will have it closed in...








next comes parging...then outer arch, then flue...chimney..

[windage]

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With the correct recipe for the CA mortar, we are kicking &ss now.








getting closer!

[drogers]

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You have done a nice job of framing the ceiling area, that should showcase the oven nicely.

[windage]

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So...you have an "oven flipping jig"? I could not source one of those anywhere on the internet. Thought of building my own from car axles, wagon wheels and a telephone pole (from the Popular Mechanics plans...'Build a Giant Johnson Bar in your Backyard'; july 1953), but ran out of time...

[ckdickerson]

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I built my oven on it's side and then flipped it upright. Just kidding. By the way you can tell that you are building an abnormally large oven when you have to climb on top of it on your hands and knees to be able to lay the brick.

[windage]

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Looking great. This is a very exciting build to watch. What do you mean by anti-gravity additive?

You mean your masonry supplier doesn't stock that ? How do you get your mortar to stick on brick standing straight up? lol
Rog

[ckdickerson]

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Looking great. This is a very exciting build to watch. What do you mean by anti-gravity additive?

[windage]

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and more pics from today; 5/23/10

'anti-gravity' additive sure did help on this chain !



garden sprayer never too far away...


Heading to brick yard tomorrow, burned through that last 250..need maybe 60-70 more and will flue pipe at the same time...time to think about a chinmey...hhmmm

Rog

[windage]

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More done today, up 5 chain all around, 7 chains on part. CA cement mortar working well, though I had to spash some univeral "anti-gravity" additive in as the chains climbing up.

a little more on the arch to dome transition...


even more;


dome coming up ...puts me in mind of an old cistern...?



Roger

[windage]

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foreplay, gettin'em wet..



arch to dome transition...



me before I got the CA recipe right..