06-03-2015, 06:06 AM
Finally made a little more progress on the furnace today, it's amazing how distracted one can be just by buying a new machine. Not to mention having to work for a living.
Anyway, some pics of today's efforts;
Got the formers for the air inlet and preheater ports welded in between the two layers of steel tube;
Also the tubular former for the pouring spout. The astute observer will also notice it is now on wheels- used the last of a batch of damaged casters I picked up form ebay,
Made a start on the lid lifting business; welded the tube on the side of the furnace and bent up the handle/lifting frame- had to butt weld the light RHS to use up some offcuts.
I also picked up my 3 bags of refractory. I don't know what's in this stuff, but for the size of the bags they seem much heavier than eexpected.
I also made a source of scrap cast iron; my faithful old vice broke in half during the course of today's proceedings.
This is the 6mm plate I had planned to use for the base; I retrieved it for the woodshed and was a bit dismayed to see how badly it has corroded in the 16 years since I dismantled the brick barbeque it was on; I'm open to suggestions as to how best to clean it up
Anyway, some pics of today's efforts;
Got the formers for the air inlet and preheater ports welded in between the two layers of steel tube;
Also the tubular former for the pouring spout. The astute observer will also notice it is now on wheels- used the last of a batch of damaged casters I picked up form ebay,
Made a start on the lid lifting business; welded the tube on the side of the furnace and bent up the handle/lifting frame- had to butt weld the light RHS to use up some offcuts.
I also picked up my 3 bags of refractory. I don't know what's in this stuff, but for the size of the bags they seem much heavier than eexpected.
I also made a source of scrap cast iron; my faithful old vice broke in half during the course of today's proceedings.
This is the 6mm plate I had planned to use for the base; I retrieved it for the woodshed and was a bit dismayed to see how badly it has corroded in the 16 years since I dismantled the brick barbeque it was on; I'm open to suggestions as to how best to clean it up
Lathe (n); a machine tool used in the production of milling machine components.
Milling Machine (n); a machine tool used in the production of lathe components.
Milling Machine (n); a machine tool used in the production of lathe components.