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forming a combustion chamber and venturi constriction out of brick?

updated tue 10 sep 02

 

millenial_age on mon 9 sep 02


I am wondering if anyone has tried to carve out a two piece IFB brick
combustion chamber and Venturi constriction rather than using a
traditional burner?

Would the pressures in a 11" wc to 5 psi stream be too much for this
or would casting it out of a refractory castable (mizzou?) be better.

I was thinking of a standard 3/4" pipe coupling being the only steel
part of the device. The Venturi Constriction would have partial
rifling (spirals in the brick) to induce turbulance.

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Steven D. Lee
SD Pottery
www.sdpottery.com
millenial_age@yahoo.com
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