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Re: Pompeii Nate's 42" take two
I forgot to mention something about the first photo in my last post. If you look at the bottom two bricks on the right side of my entry arch you can see two chunks missing. This happened when I was trying to get my arch support out. I did what everybody suggested and had the support sitting on wood so that when I moved those pieces of wood I would hopefully have an easy time of getting the form out. But that WAS NOT the case. It was quite the struggle and I started to think that I might not get it out without destroying my entire arch. But thankfully it came out with only those two little chunks as a loss. I figure I can either leave it as is and let it add to the uniqueness of my oven. Or I can find some kind of brick or rock to put on the outside as a decorative layer to cover it completely. We will see what I decide.
So I finished the oven enclosure and entry arch on 9/22/2014 (the day after my father-in-law passed away so I put my bereavement leave to good use
) and on 10/2/2014 I decided to light my first fire. That was a pretty exciting moment. So here is the photo of that first fire. Part of that first firing was obviously to see how well the vent drew the smoke out. It is funny, John, that you said it should draw like a champ because thought it did fairly well I was kind of hoping it would do a little better. I don't have any dark smoke marks on the front of my oven but I can tell that there are marks there. Maybe nobody else will but to me it is visible. I think I read in a thread somewhere about how your vent with draw the smoke better as it gets taller. Am I correct on that or is that just wishful thinking on my part? I filmed a short video of how it draws and between the sound of the wind in the recording and how the smoke whips around in my vent I can tell that wind will definitely be an issue with vent draw. So I hope that adding some kind of flue vent to the top of my vent will add to the ability of my vent to draw the smoke out. Time will tell.
The 2nd photo shows my first fire a little further along. It also shows how the smoke had marked the front arch a bit. It is definitely not like the back arch so that is good.
Photos 3 and 4 just show how the smoke was escaping at the back of my entry arch. Photo 5 was how I handled this. I took high temp caulk and fire rope and filled it in. I haven't seen anything negative from it yet but again we will see how it does in the long run.
I forgot to mention something about the first photo in my last post. If you look at the bottom two bricks on the right side of my entry arch you can see two chunks missing. This happened when I was trying to get my arch support out. I did what everybody suggested and had the support sitting on wood so that when I moved those pieces of wood I would hopefully have an easy time of getting the form out. But that WAS NOT the case. It was quite the struggle and I started to think that I might not get it out without destroying my entire arch. But thankfully it came out with only those two little chunks as a loss. I figure I can either leave it as is and let it add to the uniqueness of my oven. Or I can find some kind of brick or rock to put on the outside as a decorative layer to cover it completely. We will see what I decide.
So I finished the oven enclosure and entry arch on 9/22/2014 (the day after my father-in-law passed away so I put my bereavement leave to good use
) and on 10/2/2014 I decided to light my first fire. That was a pretty exciting moment. So here is the photo of that first fire. Part of that first firing was obviously to see how well the vent drew the smoke out. It is funny, John, that you said it should draw like a champ because thought it did fairly well I was kind of hoping it would do a little better. I don't have any dark smoke marks on the front of my oven but I can tell that there are marks there. Maybe nobody else will but to me it is visible. I think I read in a thread somewhere about how your vent with draw the smoke better as it gets taller. Am I correct on that or is that just wishful thinking on my part? I filmed a short video of how it draws and between the sound of the wind in the recording and how the smoke whips around in my vent I can tell that wind will definitely be an issue with vent draw. So I hope that adding some kind of flue vent to the top of my vent will add to the ability of my vent to draw the smoke out. Time will tell. The 2nd photo shows my first fire a little further along. It also shows how the smoke had marked the front arch a bit. It is definitely not like the back arch so that is good.
Photos 3 and 4 just show how the smoke was escaping at the back of my entry arch. Photo 5 was how I handled this. I took high temp caulk and fire rope and filled it in. I haven't seen anything negative from it yet but again we will see how it does in the long run.
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