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Foundry Furnace for the Tiny Shop
vtsteam:
--- Quote from: Will_D on March 04, 2015, 04:56:20 PM ---Rob,
I didn't mean a safety hole.
Some solid fuel furnace designs I have seen incorporate a "Dump Flap" that allows you to drop the coals out of the cold furnace.
(In paricular cupola designs).
Otherwise you have to turn it upside down to empty it out!
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I have a dump gate at the bottom of the cupola I built, but the smaller aluminum charcoal melters get dumped by hand. Usually at the end of a pour, I cover the exhaust port and tuyere with a brick. This extinguishes the charcoal, saving quite a lot of it for starting the next time. It also slows the cooling of the furnace interior, so reduces cracking. I also leave the hot but empty crucible in there for the same reason. It's easier on crucibles (I believe.......warning, personal opinion!)
Joe d:
VT Steam
Completely O/T here, but I really like your dog! Looks remarkably like
my late and still lamented friend Max who enlivened my life for 16 1/2 years.
Give him/her a milk-bone on my behalf!
Joe
vtsteam:
Certainly will, Joe.
He's a long legged dachshund. Half border collie, half long hair dachshund.
I don't know which half is which, though.
RobWilson:
--- Quote from: Will_D on March 04, 2015, 04:56:20 PM ---Rob,
I didn't mean a safety hole.
Some solid fuel furnace designs I have seen incorporate a "Dump Flap" that allows you to drop the coals out of the cold furnace.
(In paricular cupola designs).
Otherwise you have to turn it upside down to empty it out!
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Aarh you mean a drop bottom Will , I have one on my cupola :)
When I was a young lad doing cast iron coke fired there was never much left in the bottom of the furnace .
20 odd years on and I am still making blowers and furnaces ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, me thinks I could have a problem :loco:
Any way enough :offtopic:
Cheers Rob
vtsteam:
--- Quote from: RobWilson on March 04, 2015, 03:53:07 PM ---
--- Quote from: vtsteam on March 03, 2015, 09:06:52 PM ---
New foundry toys????? Whadidjaget?? Huh? Huh? Huh? :drool:
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Hi Steve ,
I bought myself , a few of each /different sizes ; Scotch cleaner ,English cleaner , Scotch club cleaner ,flange cleaner ,girder tool ,flange bead upset ,boss tool ,straight bead ,spoon tool
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Huh????
Could you repeat that in English, Rob? :lol:
(me gazing down at a clementine crate with a stolen bent kitchen spoon, a rusty artist's pallette knife, and a baking poker thingy, a clothes pin, a candle, some bits of dowel, pieces of round bar and tubing, a sawed off table leg, a clothes pin, and a piece of galvanized tin bent into a "U".) Ahhh, me I can see jealousy in my future. No longer, how you say.......a nice bit o kit?
And I thought I was stylin' :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
You know......havng it all organized like that in one crate? :lol: :lol:
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