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Sawed off cupola
vtsteam:
Added a support fixture to the lift rod for pre-heating the ladle:
vtsteam:
It's just a scrap pipe nipple quickly carved into a sort of spiral with the hand grinder. Not a thing of beauty, but it works well.
vtsteam:
It grips the rebar shank. Stays put even when I rotate the lid of the cupola as seen here, yet is easily removed with a twist and lift motion.
Today I also made up the sand bottom of the cupola. Everything is looking ready except maybe a formal means of moderating blast. Weather tomorrow is predicted at 30% chance of rain mainly after 5 PM, so I may have a go at cupola casting with with charcoal, second time around.
andyf:
I'm just an interested observer of this topic; molten metal is well out of my league. However, it does occur to me that your weather reports aren't encouraging me to visit Vermont. It will soon be 40 days and nights; time to stop gathering animals two by two and charcoaling wood which might be better employed in building an ark.
Andy
vtsteam:
We're really not responsible Andy, we get our weather second-hand from New York state.
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