Logan Oplinger on mon 9 apr 01
Several years ago friends and I made a portable LPG up draft salt kiln. We took two old round 3 ring electric kilns, tore out the elements, enlarged groves of good brick, and re-assembled to make four rings.
Then with an inner form made from an the plastic side wall of an old above ground swimming pool and several cardboard disks, we cast a 2" inner wall out of insulating castable in each ring.
Also cast a new floor on top of old floor, which was placed on a one inch disk made of wire mesh and concrete. The floor was raised up on 6 or 8, 4" concrete block.
A domed lid, 3" thick, was made from the same castable. 3" spy/salting ports were cut into opposite sides of each ring. Plugs were made w/ castable poured into medium sized soft drink cups.
Inside of kiln was painted w/ aluminum hydrate.
Firings took about 8-10 hours, saltings were done w/ sodium citrate dissolved in water & sprayed into kiln.
Logan Oplinger
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Dannon Rhudy on mon 9 apr 01
At 02:16 AM 4/9/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Several years ago friends and I made a portable LPG up draft salt kiln. We
took two old round 3 ring electric kilns, tore out the elements, enlarged
groves of good brick, and re-assembled to make four rings......
What an interesting project, Logan. How many times
were you able to fire it before significant damage
appeared? Or is it still going?
regards
Dannon Rhudy
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