your awesome... 1mtr internal dome Sydney Aus

[Bren]

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Hired a brick saw after letting the eBay one go at $400.

All going great till I got to the top of the dome. The angles are so tight there are massive triangles of just mortar.

I tried making up a sand form and laying onto it but the circle form just looked terrible. Without the tool to show the angle of t,he brick it just got messy..

Then the brick saw over heated with only a few to go... And I had a perfectionist hissy fit and pulled the oven back to before I started the sand form...

[Greenman]

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Welcome Bren. I had a look at the saw options and found a good used 15" wet saw for $500 on Gumtree. It is the right tool for the job and has built 3 ovens now. I could sell it for what I paid for it still but being a tool hoarder it will probably be around for some time yet. I found the only reasonable replacement blades on ebay from USA and even if the postage is as much as the blade it is still half of what the locals want.

Good luck with your build and you will find plenty of support and advice from the members here.

[NCMan]

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Welcome to you, Bren. There are lots of knowledgeable oven owners/builders here who are willing and able to lend you a hand, if and when you need it. Best of luck w/your project.

[deejayoh]

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Welcome to oven building! Most of us started right where you are - it gets easier.

It sounds like you might have high-density fire bricks - which are a lot harder to cut.

[Bren]

Well I don't know how you guys do it.
I have finally started the dome after months of looking at everyone else's. It looks so easy in the photos.

All seemed to be going well till i had to cut in the floor bricks.
I was given 85% phos bonded bricks from a refractory manufacturer. Probably normally used for metal furnaces.

These things were easy enough to cut into half bricks. BUT FORGET fiddly cut ins. No brick saw. I tried a diamond cutter on a 125mm angle grinder. But the bricks are just too hard it takes forever to cut through. Now I'm stuck.

Looks like I'm going to have to just hirer a brick saw and hope they cut quicker. At $140 a day hire charge, it better.


Man The door entry is doing my head in. I take my hat off to those previous posts who have finished their oven... I just can't figure it out. I hope it is clearer to me once i have cut in the floor in.

1mtr internal, In Sydney. Will send photos when i get time to figure out how to do that