36" oven in Colorado Springs

[CSpringsOven]

Re: 36" oven in Colorado Springs

on monday I shaped the plug, from one brick.

[CSpringsOven]

Re: 36" oven in Colorado Springs (good sign)

the IT is no longer needed and has left the dome!

[CSpringsOven]

Re: 36" oven in Colorado Springs (11th course)

Saturday was a good day, got the 11th course done in the morning and went to a friend's wedding reception in Denver on Sat night.

[deejayoh]

Re: 36" oven in Colorado Springs

I didn't know you could change the person in sketchup to a dude!

[CSpringsOven]

Re: 36" oven in Colorado Springs

thanks to my lovely wife, she did some sketch ups of the final design.

[jbruning]

Re: 36" oven in Colorado Springs

Looks great! I am planning to plug my dome this morning.

[CSpringsOven]

Re: 36" oven in Colorado Springs

yeap, today was a productive day, got the 10th course complete too!

and, this morning I picked up some free wood (from a guy on craigslist), which included a fair amount of wood from a cherry tree a he cut down.

plan on doing the 11th course tomorrow, then plugging the dome on Sunday(or at least creating the plug).

[CSpringsOven]

Re: 36" oven in Colorado Springs (9th course)

9th course complete today.

[CSpringsOven]

Re: 36" oven in Colorado Springs (tools

In case anyone's interested, here are the main tools I've been using.

Bucket with small square trowel, and the useful item is a paint stir stick, to mix the mortar, then for the used ones, I cut of the other end and use them as a "mini" trowels for the mortar lines, etc.

Then of course, building a WFPO is a lot easier using a 10" wet saw and grinder.

[kbartman]

Re: 36" oven in Colorado Springs

Glad to here you and yours are all ok........ Hoping to plug my dome this week

[CSpringsOven]

Re: 36" oven in Colorado Springs

Looking good Dana, your not far behind me...........Are the wild fires staying away from you? I hope all is well.

Thanks Bartman.

We were pretty fortunate, the fire started about 3 miles north of us, but the entire week we had winds from the south, so the fire/smoke was blowing away from us (and most of the Colorado Springs city limits). Needless to say, I didn't get much done on the oven for a few days.

[kbartman]

Re: 36" oven in Colorado Springs

Looking good Dana, your not far behind me...........Are the wild fires staying away from you? I hope all is well.

[CSpringsOven]

Re: 36" oven in Colorado Springs

8th course completed today.

I've been adding thicker shims to the courses above the arch, it's getting pretty close to a circle now, should be there by course 9.

[CSpringsOven]

Re: 36" oven in Colorado Springs

7th course complete yesterday.

[boerwarrior]

Re: 36" oven in Colorado Springs

Looking good, Dana!!

I also had gaps between my arch and dome and SableSprings gave me a detailed description and pictures showing why filling the gaps is a good idea.

Check out my thread post 47 for SableSprings comment: http://www.fornobravo.com/forum/8/32...a-19283-5.html