What did you use for refractory and your crucible?
Stainless isn't a good idea, molten aluminium dissolves it. Ordinary steel may be better?
J-Rod10 said:Started on a smoker. Got sheet metal ordered to skin it with. A slide out firebox on the bottom. Ten racks in the cabinet. Going to hold right about 250lbs of meat.
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JustinLonghorn said:Workbench:
Are you going to insulate combustion chamber? I would imagine your going to have a hell of a heat loss with that much surface areaXS750AU said:Thanks for the heads up. I am making the burner out of stainless and the furnace is a mild steel 9Kg gas bottle, so all good. The combustion chamber is now bolted together.
Redbird said:After spending 30min trying to compress/manually hold the spring/insert the retainer/hook the cable into the slide...
I fab'ed up a clip to hold the cap/spring/retainer in the compressed position. Thus freeing the other hand to hook the slide onto the cable, and pull the tool out... releasing it all at once.
Easy, Peasy, Japanesey.
All you have to do is make a peace sign with your first two fingers, so that the cable is going through your pointer and middle finger and the spring is in the palm of your hand, slide the yellow retainer over the cable, then thread the end of the cable into the hole. It takes like 5 seconds.Redbird said:After spending 30min trying to compress/manually hold the spring/insert the retainer/hook the cable into the slide...
I fab'ed up a clip to hold the cap/spring/retainer in the compressed position. Thus freeing the other hand to hook the slide onto the cable, and pull the tool out... releasing it all at once.
Easy, Peasy, Japanesey.
irk miller said:All you have to do is make a peace sign with your first two fingers, so that the cable is going through your pointer and middle finger and the spring is in the palm of your hand, slide the yellow retainer over the cable, then thread the end of the cable into the hole. It takes like 5 seconds.
Yup. Used to hold the carb top between my thumb and palm, while compressing/holding the spring with my fingers. All that worked great when I had the OEM cable on it with the VM's. Then I went to an aftermarket cable and the taller adjusters on the VM's. Which shortened the available cable sticking through my fingers to about an inch. Kind of a fight, but still enough room to work with. After going to the TM's, in conjunction with the aftermarket cable, the smaller diameter/stiffer spring and the narrower/deeper recess in the slide, my fat fingers were too much in the way to "Zen" the cable into slides notch.irk miller said:All you have to do is make a peace sign with your first two fingers, so that the cable is going through your pointer and middle finger and the spring is in the palm of your hand, slide the yellow retainer over the cable, then thread the end of the cable into the hole. It takes like 5 seconds.
J-Rod10 said:Thinking about sticking a piece of 1" plate on top of it.
It doesn't heat as evenly. Hot spots, and cold spots.Hurco550 said:oopfh. Thatll be plenty heavy lol any reason even 1/4" thick wont do the trick?