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Post by martyn on Oct 14, 2018 11:48:45 GMT -8
I made this vid, unfortunately the sound did not work so I have done a somewhat confusing talk over....
Anyway I was really surprised at how the fire behaved when the top of the riser was exposed!?
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Post by Orange on Oct 16, 2018 12:13:42 GMT -8
that's great temp for 6'' system! If you put a lid over you can have an oven.
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Post by martyn on Oct 16, 2018 12:25:13 GMT -8
Funny that you would say that, as today I picked up a huge s/s metal halide lamp housing.
It is a like a polished 30” food mixing bowl and fits on top just right, I also have a rotisserie motor that I want to try.
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Post by Vortex on Oct 16, 2018 12:44:00 GMT -8
Once your chimney gets hot the draw will be sufficient to suck air in. I have a little gas bottle stove that does the same thing once it gets going: vimeo.com/278630606 |
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Post by martyn on Oct 19, 2018 7:18:40 GMT -8
I made a five minute riser and exchanged it for my refactory riser, it did take me a little longer than five minutes as I built it up with two layers of 1” blanket and squeezed it into a 10” stainless pipe.
The effect was a much faster warm up time, I managed to measure 500c in just one hour compared to the previous two hours, that would seem a huge improvement!
In fact I got to 547c in the dead centre but then the little piece of glass cracked in two and I destroyed my iPad while trying to film down the riser.
What I did notice was the need to keep the fire really stoked and full of wood unless the temp would drop quite quickly.
With my old riser, once the plate reached 500c, would stay there with very little attention to the fire, I guess the 50kg of refactory was holding the temp in place.
The other issue is the amount of fly ash that has already accumulated after only two fires, I did not really have any before?
I see there is a hardening product that can be applied to ceramic blanket but it requires 800c to really be effective. I don’t know if there are other products available because I would much rather see a smooth and hard inside to the riser.
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Post by ronyon on Oct 19, 2018 7:39:34 GMT -8
Damn shame about the I-pad, thanks for trying the riser and reporting the results here.
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Post by Orange on Oct 19, 2018 23:38:47 GMT -8
maybe put some bricks in the barrel to hold the temperature? And get a full chimney just in case so no ceramic particles can fly around.
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Post by martyn on Oct 20, 2018 0:02:56 GMT -8
I can only find one company in the U.K. selling ceramic blanket hardner www.creativeglassshop.co.uk/product/31306/colloidal-sillica-hardener-1ltr.htmlI spoke to them about the product but they just conformed the site info, it really needs 800c to set very hard although it will set to a lesser degree at lower temperature. I guess I will have to buy some and test it but I actually live on a small island and the postage cost for toxic liquid is very prohibitive. So I might have to wait until we next take the car to the mainland. In the mean time I have set up a decent vortex but simply jamming a bit of stainless at the end of the burn tunnel, I will be lighting the fire tonight so we will see how it goes this time.... |
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Hot plate
Oct 20, 2018 0:37:50 GMT -8
via mobile
Post by satamax on Oct 20, 2018 0:37:50 GMT -8
Have you checked prosiref ?
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Post by martyn on Oct 21, 2018 0:16:14 GMT -8
Have you checked prosiref ? Merci je vais les contacter demain. We had a few friends around last night, we cooked steak and lobster (farmer and fisherman friends) it all went well, I was too occupied to take any video but the hot plate was 475c after one hour. We aslo cooked some chestnuts and as a finale we melted some mashmellows over the exposed heatriser, all good fun but at my age ... not so good this morning! |
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Post by satamax on Oct 21, 2018 1:03:20 GMT -8
You piss artist!  By the way, that makes me think, brexit, in the anglo norman islands, might be a right pain! How did it vote there? |
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Post by martyn on Oct 21, 2018 5:18:59 GMT -8
We did not vote as we are a independent jurisdiction, we have our own government although our passport is U.K. based !
Most street names, house names and many surnames are French but most people speak English, in fact our local patois is not even taught in schools anymore.
I don’t know what effect Brexit will have but there is concern with the offshore banking (the islands main income )
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Post by martyn on Oct 24, 2018 13:49:53 GMT -8
A few more little mods, the feed box is now 12” deep and tapers out from 6x6” to 7x7.5”.
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Hot plate
Oct 24, 2018 15:11:43 GMT -8
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Post by wiscojames on Oct 24, 2018 15:11:43 GMT -8
Love the glass feed cover. Chimney is not connected, correct? Did you explain that already?
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Post by martyn on Oct 24, 2018 22:45:55 GMT -8
Chimney is not connected but can be quite easily, I did have a rotating plate over the outlet so I could control the flow through the system, this is good in the summer.
It is nice to show folk how the fire operates smoke free and the exposed chimney lets out cooking smells.
The whole party house area is well vented as the structure is just made from fence panels.
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