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  • #46
    Re: Bathurst Build 100cm ish

    Thanks Dave
    You may well be wright because I cant find any info on the net of anyone ever attempting the pot idea. I thought of the idea when I saw a terracotta tandori oven ,but thats not a pizza oven and its not 750mm+ in diameter !!!.And I cant find a pot that size for under $350 so I think its a none starter . I will make myself a sand castle and go from there.
    I was give a bag of dry bentonite clay and I made some test bricks 2/1 3/1 4/1 ,they cracked badly a crumbled very easily,even with straw in some . I was at the local gravel/sand supplier on Sat and he had some Brickies clay and said it can be used for Pizza ovens, so I got a bag and made the same test bricks .The results were VERY good very hard no crumbling and very little shrinkage.so that looks promising
    Cheers for now
    Marty

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    • #47
      Re: Bathurst Build 100cm ish

      Floor almost cut but not leveled
      Cheers,
      Rosemary

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      • #48
        Re: Bathurst Build 100cm ish

        Gudday Rosemary
        if you taking photos on an I phone or tablet.....hold it landscape not portrait way up, button on the right, the pics will come out right.
        great progress by the way.
        Your using a layer of brick to increase the thermal mass under those firebrick tiles?
        Regards Dave
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        • #49
          Re: Bathurst Build 100cm ish

          Hey Dave, thanks for that. Yep the same bricks as in the dome are under the tiles.we are looking these bricks and leveling their surface by using a poor mans mortar brushed into the cracks then hosed down. Can't do too much else atm as it has been so stinking hot. 40 plus degrees most days here and very smokey due to the fires in the blue mountains. Came up with a good way of mixing the dry mortar. In a plastic paint bucket. The kind you save left over paint in. Just measure it out shake it up then mix as much as you need for the job at hand. The rest stays nice and dry.
          Last edited by SpottedFrog; 01-16-2014, 12:34 PM. Reason: Wasn't finished
          Cheers,
          Rosemary

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          • #50
            Re: Bathurst Build 100cm ish

            Big smiles here. Just levelled the floor and ran the peels over it and it works. Oh so much better than we thought it would. Might need to do a tiny bit of grinding in one spot. But much better than we thought it would be. Very pleased as some of the yes are a bit warped. The clay sand mix is very fluffy needed the dust mask again. Next to slide in the cardboard and mortar up the soldiers.
            Cheers,
            Rosemary

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            • #51
              Re: Bathurst Build 100cm ish

              Hi all put down the decomposed granite a week ago and started the timber stand last weekend ,with a bit of luck I may finish it next week end .Then it onto the insulating layer of glass bottles , then sand then bricks and fire bricks .Rosemary did you get your fire bricks locally?
              cheers for now
              Marty

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              • #52
                Re: Bathurst Build 100cm ish

                Hi Marty, yeah I did but they are used. I'll on you my phone number so we can chat about them if you like. Have you started a thread yet for your build?
                Cheers,
                Rosemary

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                • #53
                  Re: Bathurst Build 100cm ish

                  Hi Rosemary that would be great . No I havent started a new thread yet .I need to set some time aside to do that
                  cheers
                  Marty

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                  • #54
                    Re: Bathurst Build 100cm ish

                    Hi all I have got the stand finished and put into place .Put a layer of empty beer bottles down and covered with a saw dust and clay slip mix .Pix to come I hope
                    cheers

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                    • #55
                      Re: Bathurst Build 100cm ish

                      Originally posted by madKW View Post
                      Hi all I have got the stand finished and put into place .Put a layer of empty beer bottles down and covered with a saw dust and clay slip mix .Pix to come I hope
                      cheers
                      Gudday madKW
                      No thread? No pics? Didnt happen .... Time to start showing us your progress.
                      The northern part of our planet is now to cold for homebrew to set... Our great southern land is either to hot to venture outdoors or cyclonic. Your It.
                      Regards Dave
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                      • #56
                        Re: Bathurst Build 100cm ish

                        hey Dave

                        I'm still here and not finished. Guess I should load the photos of progress since Xmas. Not much progress though I just didn't feel the photos justified loading as work has been very sporadic as I am waiting for a moron to ship bull nose bricks [same as my house bricks] from a - b. have been waiting now for 3 weeks.


                        Point is I pass his storage yard every day as a part of my job, I can see them and smell them but I cannot get them, as he wont meet me there but insisits on getting them to his yard up the road from where I live. Especially when I only need about 22. Took me 3 weeks to locate these bull nose bricks they are only 5 km from my home.
                        MOST ANNOYING AND EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING.
                        Cheers Colin

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                        • #57
                          Re: Bathurst Build 100cm ish

                          Can't believe this weather. If only the oven was finished there would be no need to cure it the aussie sun would be doing that for us. Oh well we'll get some more done one of these days.
                          Sorted the deco arch it will be sandstone. A mate is a sculptor and is doing a swap. Canopy pilot training for a beaut arch.
                          But with the fire risk lately we would not have been using it or wanted to fire it anyway
                          Cheers,
                          Rosemary

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                          • #58
                            Re: Bathurst Build 100cm ish

                            Yep its hot hear today 38c in the shade outside my place .Bush fires in the area some are arson .Too hot to work outside for this old fella

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                            • #59
                              Re: Bathurst Build 100cm ish

                              Hi all I am now up to the rendering stage ,does anyone know where to get the fibers you can add to the render to reinforce it?
                              cheers

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                              • #60
                                Re: Bathurst Build 100cm ish

                                Well hubby is back on the tools stopped throwing himself out of planes for a while. Tiles are cut and in place. Including where the arch sits. Ugg. I think that is the most daunting part of the whole thing. I'll post some pics of that when I get a chance.
                                Cheers,
                                Rosemary

                                My build so far
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                                Starting out collecting info and materials
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