Resurrection of a CFEI 100 KVA Induction Furnace

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awemawson:
Graham you probably wouldn’t want to be closer than two meters anyway so I don’t see that a visit would be a problem.

Sea.dog:
Keep me posted then :thumbup:

awemawson:
I won't be long Graham.

This evening I've bought an 18 metre length of brand new 4 core 35 mm csa SWA cable on ebay at a pretty cheap price (£54) and have put it up on Shiply for quotes for delivery (it's in Kidington, Oxford) . By co-incidence the best so far is from the chap who delivered the two humongous Heat Exchangers, one of which went into the new water cooler. They totalled 75 kg - this cable in 'only' 50 kg !

This will enable me to direct bury it in the earth between the generator and the foundry without any conduit and have enough either end to fix a plug and socket in convenient places. I already have a 10 metre length but it only just reaches and it's ends would have to be in darn inconvenient places.

awemawson:
The extra 18 metres of 4 core 35mm csa SWA cable is due to arrive this afternoon so I need to consider how to get it into the foundry from it's proposed underground trench.

It's not very flexible, and needs to raise from horizontal in it's underground trench to vertical up the inside wall of the foundry, so just drilling a hole through the wall won't work due to the minimum bend radius of the 30 mm diameter outer sheath . I hit on the idea of core drilling a hole at 45 degrees through the corner of the concrete slab / wall junction. Then when the trench is dug it can slightly under mine the slab and the cable can take up a somewhat gentler bend.

So using my diamond core drill and both the extensions that I have for it I drilled the hole. It ended up about 14 inches long. Sounds simple doesn't it but producing that hole represents two hours of my life :bugeye:

My core drill perhaps doesn't have as many diamonds as it used to have, and I had to alternate between two drills as they were getting mighty hot so . . .

. . . . it may look like a pathetic little hole to you but to me it represents an achievement :ddb:

Now I need to find someone to hand dig 20 foot of trench as, the state my back is currently in it's not going to be me :(

Sea.dog:
I've made a note in my diary.

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