It's time to go Vertical

[videts38]

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Hello JCG,
I'm currenly in the process of planning my 42" WFO build and have been doing ALOT of reading on this forum site. Trying to ease from the planning to building process as smoothly as possible. And by the way I'm a novice to masonry and not an engineer.
I have been reading about your angle cuts on the firebricks. I have 3"x4.5"x9" bricks and wanted to try figure out the angle cuts for this projects. You mentioned you might put together a spreed sheet for the calculations of the angles by plugging in the brick info. I was wondering if you ever did this and if possible can you forward me a copy of the spreedsheet to use in my build. I wasn't sure if the chart you have attached would apply to the size bricks I have.
I'm trying to figure everything out before i get started to ease the stress (LOL) I'm geting before I even start. thanks and I look forward to your reply.

Steven

[Pompeii Nate]

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RC,

Your build is awesome and the info I have found reading through your thread is priceless.

Fantastic job!

Nate

[Acoma]

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RC, that pizza cutter is pretty sweet! I use it every time we have imitation pizza (WFO is the only real one). Glad to hear your cures are done, and the foods are fun.

[RCLake]

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Also wanted to thanks James for the pizza cutter, it got here days before our first pizza. It put my old one to shame, twice the size. Looking forward to cutting a lot of pie with it.

[RCLake]

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RC, with curing over, it is time to lift that blanket to see the results. I have 2" of blanket minimum to approx. 4" at overlapping areas towards the top. Somewhere you stated that you would add more. How much is the minimum you wish to cover with? Aren't you planning on other insulating factors on top (Matrilite or Vermiculite)? How much would then be applied?

I bought 50 sf of 2" blanket and also of 1" blanket. So far I only have the 2" covering the dome, I still have 6' of the 25' in the box plus all the 1". I haven't seen the outside of the blanket above 90F so far. I'll add the rest so I'll have 4" or 5" everywhere, other than the arch way (only 2" there, it hasn't got that hot there). I'll have the 5" segment on the top of the dome.

Nothing else, I think I'll put stucco over that to weatherproof it until I get to the stonework.
Good luck tomorrow

[RCLake]

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Great pics RC. You gotta be happy with those results! How's the oven holding up after the blazing fire?

It seems to be doing just fine, from the inside everything I can see looks the same. Any hints on getting the soot off the arch entry way? From the outside I do have mortar crack zigzagging up 4 bricks starting at the top left of the arch and where the dome connects, nothing bad thoug. But not excited on going in until I clean the entry way up.

[Acoma]

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RC, with curing over, it is time to lift that blanket to see the results. I have 2" of blanket minimum to approx. 4" at overlapping areas towards the top. Somewhere you stated that you would add more. How much is the minimum you wish to cover with? Aren't you planning on other insulating factors on top (Matrilite or Vermiculite)? How much would then be applied?

[gjbingham]

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Great pics RC. You gotta be happy with those results! How's the oven holding up after the blazing fire?

[Inishta]

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RC............awesome! We have all been following the build and I'm sure we all feel the buzz with you. OK so it wasn't 100% but 95% is good..........

Enjoy

[Acoma]

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Agree. Congratulations on a successful build, cure, and oven festivity.

[Frances]

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Congratulations Lake! Looks as if you had a great time! Cool!!

Thank you for posting all those pics. I burnt my wooden peel, the first time, too

[dusty]

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Very cool! Congrads, RC. Isn't it rewarding to finally start using it? It's funny, but I never doubted that the oven would cook good and I suspected that it would be fun, but I was most suprised by how very fun it was for everyone to use it. From stetching out the dough to pulling out the finished pie, everyone has had a great time. And quality family time too!

dusty

[RCLake]

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Good to hear. How is heaven anyway. I'd be nice to know what I'm going to miss.

The little one of yours will convert you. Wrapped around the little finger Yet?

[RCLake]

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I had a real good fire going and flames were traveling up the dome, the dome temp max out my gun and the floor was 900F. I was charring the edges of the pie but the bottoms were turning out great. I probably could have let the fires die down more.

[RCLake]

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The other mishap occured when we decided to do a dessert pie with chocolate, strawberries, graham crackers and mashmellows. Prepared that an placed it into the oven, it didn't take any time before the marshmellows were on fire. crust had barley started cooking. Wasted Pie.
We tried again but decided to cook the pie 75% and then add the ingredients. Turned out great.
So 5 out of 8 turned out on our kickoff night so I was pleased. All of us had a great time doing this and it got easier. I switched to get the pies out the oven to an aluminum peel and this helped a lot. I'll get a turning peel , with its smaller size I imagine it is easier to turn.