Bend, Oregon USA 29" interior Floor

[Dino_Pizza]

Re: Bend, Oregon USA 29" interior Floor

Chris, don't worry about the hairline cracks. You'll have lots of them; they are normal. The oven has to expand and contract a lot. I think the more small ones you have the better. Even the larger crack (when your oven is at it's hottest 7-800 deg and then one of those hairlines gets almost credit card thickness, it's still no big deal. It's not big enough to loose heat or smoke through the insulation blanket you'll wrap it in. Now that's worst case if it happens at all.
Looks fine-Dino

[Les]

Re: Bend, Oregon USA 29" interior Floor

HEY you let the cat out of the bag :P

Thanks alot I was hope not to let it out of the bag until about 50 more posts

Crap - sorry about that

Nuclear is when you have flames jumping out of both orifice's.
It's fun to watch...

Les...

[100million]

Re: Bend, Oregon USA 29" interior Floor

Chris - Before you wrap it up - bring it up to nuclear to see what happens. I think your approach is solid, so I don't expect any thing bad. Since this thing is destined for the road, I would start looking at cushioning the transport.

Les...

What is nuke to you ?????? because I am only going to run it about this hot or just a little hotter

HEY you let the cat out of the bag :P

Thanks alot I was hope not to let it out of the bag until about 50 more posts/

Chris

Oh well maybe nobody will see it

[Les]

Re: Bend, Oregon USA 29" interior Floor

I think I will start on 2-3" Blankets and alum foil and chicken wire and mortar and dryit after that

Chris - Before you wrap it up - bring it up to nuclear to see what happens. I think your approach is solid, so I don't expect any thing bad. Since this thing is destined for the road, I would start looking at cushioning the transport.

Les...

[100million]

Re: Bend, Oregon USA 29" interior Floor

Another good day Firing and Curing the oven

These are approx #

Roof is 850-975
Floor is 609-750
Walls at solider row 595-620
Outside 205-295
Under the oven 179

What do you all think of the #'s?

The Bricks in the last picture is just starting to glow. and you can just barely see them

I do have about a dozen or so Hairline cracks

I think these are from expanding brick and mortar???

I think I will start on 2-3" Blankets and alum foil and chicken wire and mortar and dryit after that

[100million]

Re: Bend, Oregon USA 29" interior Floor

Well today was a good day


DAY 4
There are zero cracks that i can see inside the oven
there are some hair line cracks on the skim coat that i put on after the 16 gauge chicken fence, this skim coat was about 3/4- 1 inch thick in some places.

I want to see what will happen tomorrow before i put the ceramic blankets on.

I am hoping that this will insure me of huge cracks later down the road




Fired and cured oven at
ceiling 650
floor 486
Walls 539
outside 174

I think tomorrow i will try to fire it up to about 800-1000 on ceiling.

The heat tranfering from flame to bricks i feel is going well.

Chris

[100million]

Re: Bend, Oregon USA 29" interior Floor

Looks like a good product, but they all look round (cylindrical) to me. Did I misread something?

I cut the opening 6 x 9 and tappered it to 4 x 6 then i used the 6in circle chimney

[dmun]

Re: Bend, Oregon USA 29" interior Floor

Looks like a good product, but they all look round (cylindrical) to me. Did I misread something?

[100million]

Re: Bend, Oregon USA 29" interior Floor

I think the rule of thumb, to the extent that there is one, is that the area of the opening in the entry should be twice the area of the flue interior.

Six by nine isn't a standard flue size around here. What are you using?

I am using supervent as the flue

[dmun]

Re: Bend, Oregon USA 29" interior Floor

I think the rule of thumb, to the extent that there is one, is that the area of the opening in the entry should be twice the area of the flue interior.

Six by nine isn't a standard flue size around here. What are you using?

[100million]

Re: Bend, Oregon USA 29" interior Floor

The only thing I would do differently is to make a larger flue transition, to prevent smoke coming out the front on startup. Having a hole in your entry the same size as your flue isn't the best, but once the fire is going strong it should draw fine.

Good looking build.

I have a 6 by 9 flue and 6 inch interior chimney....What should i have?

Thanks for your comment Dmun I am learning and want to know more ....So any comment is appreciated....

Chris

[dmun]

Re: Bend, Oregon USA 29" interior Floor

Still waiting for some of the old timer to tell me the pro's and con's of my oven

The only thing I would do differently is to make a larger flue transition, to prevent smoke coming out the front on startup. Having a hole in your entry the same size as your flue isn't the best, but once the fire is going strong it should draw fine.

Good looking build.

[100million]

Re: Bend, Oregon USA 29" interior Floor

Well another day heating and curing the oven

Floor 285
Walls 363
Ceiling 428
Outside 164

Everything looks find so far

I think I will be installing the Ceramic Blanket chicken wire and skim coat Saturday

I will like you all know what it looks like with more pictures to follow

Thanks

Chris

Still waiting for some of the old timer to tell me the pro's and con's of my oven

[100million]

Re: Bend, Oregon USA 29" interior Floor

Well 2nd day curing oven
8 hours each day
At the end of the day these are the temps

Outside of skim coat 135 F
Ceiling inside 345 F
Side walls 225 F
Floor 185 F

Should I Move on the the 400F Tomorrow????? for 8 more hours?

[Les]

Re: Bend, Oregon USA 29" interior Floor

Looks great Chris. I recommend using Dryvit for the stucco. It's an acrylic base and it is water proof. It also comes in any color you want.

Les...