Mike Hraber on sat 17 may 03
I am interested in setting up a gas kiln, and I saw one for sale for about $650. I think I would need to buy an ignition ring, as well as a kiln sitter, and probably some other accesories. I would like to use propane in tanks as the fuel. The kiln I saw was a top loader.
I would like to know what components I need to purchase, and approximate costs.
Any feedback is welcome.
Thanks!
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julie milazzo on sat 17 may 03
Hey Mike,
I got a propane tank for my kiln, and was told that for two hundred smackers, I could have a tank any size, installed, with the first year's rent, and connected to my kiln (up to ten feet of tubing free). Sounded great.
I agreed to it, and then was told that they weren't allowed to install a tank within something like twenty five feet of the kiln. Okay, so the tubing thing was a gyp. Anyway, I dug seventy feet of trench, to avoid additional installation costs, because any digging over ten feet was as unfree as the tubing. To make a long story short, having them lay an extra sixty feet of copper brought my total cost up to around a thousand dollars. Now, three hundred of that was for the propane, and two hundred was for the rest of the deal, but somehow, they worked in five hundred dollars worth of extra costs. Get everything in writing before they begin... Jules
Mike Hraber wrote:
I am interested in setting up a gas kiln, and I saw one for sale for about $650. I think I would need to buy an ignition ring, as well as a kiln sitter, and probably some other accesories. I would like to use propane in tanks as the fuel. The kiln I saw was a top loader.
I would like to know what components I need to purchase, and approximate costs.
Any feedback is welcome.
Thanks!
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Earl Brunner on sat 17 may 03
Well, if it is a gas kiln, it should come with burners etc. Why do you
think you need additional stuff? We need to know more about the kiln
before we can really make any serious recommendations. While there are
high limit controllers for gas kilns MOST people don't use a kiln setter
as such. Gas generally needs to be monitored through out the firing,
dampers closed and gas shut off at the end of the firing.
What are the dimensions of the kiln and what kind of burners does it
have? These are things that will determine how much propane you have to
have available to fire. If you draw gas off from small tanks too fast
they can freeze up.
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Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2003 4:18 PM
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: gas kiln setup questions
I am interested in setting up a gas kiln, and I saw one for sale for
about $650. I think I would need to buy an ignition ring, as well as a
kiln sitter, and probably some other accesories. I would like to use
propane in tanks as the fuel. The kiln I saw was a top loader.
I would like to know what components I need to purchase, and approximate
costs.
Any feedback is welcome.
Thanks!
Snail Scott on sat 17 may 03
At 04:18 PM 5/17/03 -0700, you wrote:
>I am interested in setting up a gas kiln, and I saw one for sale for about
$650...
Can't hardly buy the bricks and parts for that price,
even for a small kiln. Grab it!
-Snail
Tony Olsen on sun 18 may 03
Mike,
Is this the one you are talking about?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3D2323040832
If so, I would be interested in if it can go to ^10 on a single 5 gallon =
tank.
They suggest that a bisque firing is about 2$ of LP.
Sounds like an easy way to go gas (perhaps too easy?)
Tony (Galveston)
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