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| Rob.Wilson:
You planning on building cupola Darren ? :lol: No the Chester mill is all all nice and square now , I will probably still fined something to moan about on it further down the line :lol: :Doh: Rob |
| Mayhem:
Its in the back of my mind Rob - along with hundreds of other projects, many of which may never see the light of day. I still have to finish off my babington burner and then get my furnace built. The burner worked fine when I had it set up on retort stands with a gravity drip feed to see if it was plausible to actually build. Since then there have been little problems crop up with progressing it to a self contained unit with an oil pump and sump. Now that winter is upon us and the fire bans lifted, I can play a bit more with it. Once it is running I'll start on the furnace and see how it performs. If there is any interest in it, I'll start a thread on here when (if) I get the kinks ironed out... |
| Rob.Wilson:
Aye Darren get a tread started :poke: Rob |
| vtsteam:
Rob, you know I'd be happy if you poured first. But the friendly cupola wars is a great motivator to actually get the darned thing done, for me. Maybe we'll pour on the same day. That would be cool! Well, it just started storming so I quit for the day. Here's what I did: Welding the hinges on really warped up the 1/8" plate, so I weighted it down and clamped it to the base to keep it flat while I welded it in place. |
| vtsteam:
I welded the disk on. I wanted to avoid more distortion, so I didn't continuous weld it on, but put two welds per angle section. Then I ground the tops of the welds down flush with the plate. Not pretty, but it was flat. |
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