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| awemawson:
I will probably use sodium silicate and silver sand. When I’m at that stage I’ll start a separate thread |
| awemawson:
Yesterday afternoon I stripped off all the masking paper and had a nice anti-social bonfire of it in an oil drum brazier with all the paint rags creating a brief but impressive black plume. Lucky we have no near neighbours :lol: And this morning I started putting it all back together - bang on cue Parcelforce delivered the little 3 mm plastic rivets from RSComponents so I could re-attach all the various labels and warning signs. Before I re-connected it to the furnace body I cut the Ty-Wraps holding the four Brewers Hose driver cables and re-arranged them to lie a bit more uniformly before binding them back together with more Ty-Wraps. Then having attached to furnace body, and the flow and return hoses from the chiller I was able to test for leaks and start pumping water round the system - all sound thank goodness. Using my 'test mains cable' I was then able to power it up off local three phase, check that it goes ready, and 'ping' the furnace body - it's still working amazingly. So - next job it to sort out a way of having the high power cable from the generator permanently connected. Rolling it out each time is a major exercise and means that I can't fully lower my roller shutter so I can't leave it as is. I need to work out whether to trench in the big 6" electrical ducting that I have, or whether either laying it on the surface or fixing it to the rear wall of the barn is the best option. A bit of cogitation called for :scratch: |
| Sea.dog:
It looks like new. Another Mawson success :beer: |
| awemawson:
Thanks Graham. Do you remember that heart stopping day when we realised that it had a 15 year old back up battery and shot out to the workshop to investigate :bugeye: That was nearly curtains for the project! |
| Sea.dog:
I certainly do, Andrew. I'll be sorry to miss the inaugural firing of the first load, unless things ease up, of course :thumbup: |
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