Thin walled Barrel Vault on wheels

[brianventura]

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Wow!!! Very nice. I was wondering when you were going to start your oven. I just found your thread this morning. I know you have been planning your oven for some time now and it really paid off. You have a great design, and the ability to hold the heat with the thin walls is outstanding. The finished look of the oven is very clean and goes perfectly in your backyard.

Enjoy the pizza parties!!

Also what are you using for your door?

Brian

[okn]

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Brian, thank you for all the kind words. It went together at a decent pace, once I finally got moving. I have been using the oven quite frequently and the heat retaining performance never ceases to amaze me.

So what about the door?

Right now I am using a 3? thick hunk of insblock 19, which I know probably isn?t the best/healthiest option. So far, I have cut the front part of the door out with left over metal, welded trowel handles to the front, and welded some bolts to the back. The intent is to sandwich a piece of insblock between metal and then band it with some thinner stuff. I ran out of argon and don?t have any thin metal right now, so the whole door making process has been on hold.

What about you? Are you making a new door or staying with wood?

[brianventura]

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Kevin,
I will have a metal door of some kind but I haven't given much thought yet on how I will make the door with insulating properties that isn't too heavy. The wood doors that I have been using have been only for a temporary solution. I need to think of something here soon since my second (temporary) door is about to burn through.

Brian

[okn]

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Finally put a chimney cap on my oven. Believe it or not, it has only rained one time since I built my oven. Even that wasn't much to talk about, just a drizzle. Anyway, I welded the two "roofs" together, then welded a couple of pieces of square tube to it. Painted the underside, then welded the whole thing to my chimney stack. After all, I sprayed it with some more paint.

Kevin

[WJW]

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Haven't checked in for some time.

That oven looks fantastic Kevin! Wow.

And judging by the bread pics, it's working great as well.

Bill

[david s]

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Kevin,
Now that you've finished do you wheel the thing around much, or is it pretty much a fixture?
Nice looking loaves by the way.
Dave

[texman]

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kevin

Just found your thread. That is very cool/Hot.

Congrats.

Texman

[okn]

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Texman, Dave, and Bill, Thanks for the compliments. Dave, this oven is parked for the long haul. The wheels were quite necessary, because my designer likes to see how things looks in many different locations before settling on a final decision :-) Furthermore, since I don't have much design sense, I have to rely on her:-)

[david s]

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Texman, Dave, and Bill, Thanks for the compliments. Dave, this oven is parked for the long haul. The wheels were quite necessary, because my designer likes to see how things looks in many different locations before settling on a final decision :-) Furthermore, since I don't have much design sense, I have to rely on her:-)

That's what I thought. With heavy weight and those small wheels I wouldn't think you'd be rolling it around too often.

[cobblerdave]

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That's what I thought. With heavy weight and those small wheels I wouldn't think you'd be rolling it around too often.

Gudday
Seems to be the way it goes with the mobile oven... They all seem to end up parked permanently.
Regards dave

[okn]

smoke stack rework

I started to notice some rust forming on my smoke stack. It wasn't really noticeable by most people, however, I saw it and it bugged me. The problem was not really rust, but seemed to be from the mill scale. The heat was slowly causing the mill scale to release in very small amounts, which in turn caused the rust. If you are not familiar with mill scale, this is some crazy tuff stuff. That's the reason I left it on to begin with. I tried wire wheeling the stuff off,not it didn't come close to removing it. They're only thing that really works is to grind it off. That's what I did. Then repainted with high temp rustoleum. Here are the pictures.

[okn]

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Cooked pizza last night and made sourdough today.

[TropicalCoasting]

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looks excellent
Lovin the bread porn

[WJW]

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Wow!....long time no see. The oven looks great and the bread looks fantastic.

Bill

[disastrophe]

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I'd like to build an oven very similar to this one, except it would be on a permanent stand, not on wheels. I have no welding skills, so I'm wondering how much cladding or buttressing would be required to support the sides.

Any estimates? Thanks in advance.