S. Morris on wed 1 dec 04
I was wondering if anyone in the New England part of
the country had any ideas where I could start looking
for some used/free brick to build a kiln with this
summer... I'm currently going to school in IL, but
will be returning to NH this summer and thought it
would be fun to build a small wood kiln.... Any
suggestoins as the where I might look??
Thanks,
Steph Morris, In Normal
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Charles on wed 1 dec 04
Steph,
See if you have a local refractory manufacturer and ask them politely if you can raid their scrap piles. Often perfectly useful bricks are scrapped because of cosmetic damage. I have a friend who built a lovely wood kiln entirely from salvaged bricks.
Best of Luck,
Charles
"S. Morris" wrote:
I was wondering if anyone in the New England part of
the country had any ideas where I could start looking
for some used/free brick to build a kiln with this
summer... I'm currently going to school in IL, but
will be returning to NH this summer and thought it
would be fun to build a small wood kiln.... Any
suggestoins as the where I might look??
Thanks,
Steph Morris, In Normal
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Eva Gallagher on thu 2 dec 04
Hi Steph,
I have just been going through the same thing - and I wished that I had
thought of this before I had ordered most of my bricks. Why not see if the
nearest refractory brick supplier/representaive will tell you who has
ordered some new ones recently and then contact that company and see what
they are doing with their old ones? I checked companies that would have high
temp furnaces like - Boeing - that made metal castings, Smurfit - a company
that makes paper pulp, companies that have large boilers, - whether for
heating or for production of hot process air. Cement producers - etc. Some
of their bricks may not be rated high enough but would be good as a second
layer or for the upper parts of the chimney.
However none around here were relining their furnaces - and most said that
they were now not using bricks but castable.
Good luck,
Eva Gallagher
Deep River, Ontario
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Subject: Used/ Free Firebricks??
> I was wondering if anyone in the New England part of
> the country had any ideas where I could start looking
> for some used/free brick to build a kiln with this
> summer... I'm currently going to school in IL, but
> will be returning to NH this summer and thought it
> would be fun to build a small wood kiln.... Any
> suggestoins as the where I might look??
>
> Thanks,
> Steph Morris, In Normal
>
>
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Marcia Selsor on fri 3 dec 04
When I lived near Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY we found a cache of used fire
brick in the woods in an old boiler.
some industrial dinosauer from another age. This was 35 years ago. We
also found used bricks near Desoto Illinois
at a similar site but these cost $.05 each. So I guess you need to
really search.
Marcia Selsor
Montana
fired raku yesterday before the gusty winds brought the cold from the
North.
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