Claudia MacPhee on thu 18 may 06
Hi All, A friend of mine has a huge pile of used firebricks from a boiler he dismanted. Some of them are reddish-they are NOT house bricks. The others have AP Green on them and Ozark under that, they are beige coloured. The boiler he dismantled used to heat the Gov housing in Whitehorse during the 1950's. 60's. Question-any good for kiln building??? Maybe a Raku kiln even? Or for the outside of a kiln? Wood, I got lots. Getting firebricks is a HUGE problem so hoping maybe these could be of use.
Claudia MacPhee, Tagish, Yukon, where our snow is gone, gone, gone!!
Marcia Selsor on thu 18 may 06
I used some bricks from a boiler in upstate NY. Made a catenary Arch
kiln from them in 1971.
As for the raku kiln, take a look at my design in Steve Branfman's
book, Raku, A Practical Approach. 2nd edition.
I have a sketch of a wood fired raku kiln with a fiber lined chamber
on top
of a bee hive support and a tunnel fired box. The barrel was on
pulleys and an angle iron frame. We'd fired all day.
When the flames were shooting out the top of the barrel it was almost
ready. The fasted we ever clocked a batch was
3.5 minutes at the end of a day of firing. We split 2x4s for fuel.
Marcia Selsor
http://marciaselsor.com
On May 18, 2006, at 12:07 PM, Claudia MacPhee wrote:
> Hi All, A friend of mine has a huge pile of used firebricks from a
> boiler he dismanted. Some of them are reddish-they are NOT house
> bricks. The others have AP Green on them and Ozark under that, they
> are beige coloured. The boiler he dismantled used to heat the Gov
> housing in Whitehorse during the 1950's. 60's. Question-any good
> for kiln building??? Maybe a Raku kiln even? Or for the outside of
> a kiln? Wood, I got lots. Getting firebricks is a HUGE problem so
> hoping maybe these could be of use.
>
> Claudia MacPhee, Tagish, Yukon, where our snow is gone, gone, gone!!
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craig edwards on thu 18 may 06
The short answer is Yup... I have used AP Green Ozarks in woodfired kilns
with no problem. I believe they are classified as a super duty brick. They
work similar to a Clipper that I get from Firebrick Supply in Mpls.,side by
side, I can't tell a difference. Congratulations!!!!
~Craig
On 5/18/06, Claudia MacPhee wrote:
>
> Hi All, A friend of mine has a huge pile of used firebricks from a boiler
> he dismanted. Some of them are reddish-they are NOT house bricks. The others
> have AP Green on them and Ozark under that, they are beige coloured. The
> boiler he dismantled used to heat the Gov housing in Whitehorse during the
> 1950's. 60's. Question-any good for kiln building??? Maybe a Raku kiln even?
> Or for the outside of a kiln? Wood, I got lots. Getting firebricks is a HUGE
> problem so hoping maybe these could be of use.
>
> Claudia MacPhee, Tagish, Yukon, where our snow is gone, gone, gone!!
> ______________________________________________________________________________
> Send postings to clayart@lsv.ceramics.org You may look at the archives for
> the list or change your subscription settings from
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> may be reached at melpots@pclink.com.
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