flue liners/spiral pipe/mortar

updated thu 13 jul 06

Claudia MacPhee on wed 12 jul 06

Hi All, Questions galore about this topic. Can this be used on a wood kiln? And I have tons of questions about mortar. All the books I have been reading have diffrent ideas. Quantities? All this is complicated by having to ship everything 2,000 kms. Don't even think about Winter!

   At least I have pretty much finalized what I will build and where (too many choices). Want to have all the materials ready to go by the first of August so I can FIRE UP at the end of fire season. The one bright spot is all the wood I could ever burn, all dry ready to truck home. Many thanks in advance for the helpful answers.

 

Claudia MacPhee   Tagish, Yukon

Hank Murrow on thu 13 jul 06

On Jul 13, 2006, at 1:22 AM, Claudia MacPhee wrote:

> Hi All, Questions galore about this topic. Can this be used on a wood
> kiln? And I have tons of questions about mortar. All the books I have
> been reading have diffrent ideas. Quantities? All this is complicated
> by having to ship everything 2,000 kms. Don't even think about Winter!

Dear Claudia;

I recently built a chimney for a large anagama here at the u of oregon.
It consists of a brick structure around 7' tall, sheathed with cement
board, and capped by a castable piece that supports a 20" diameter(kiln
is around 300 cu ft) stainless steel pipe which a local sheet metal guy
fabricated for us. It is lined with 2" of high temperature fiber, which
is lapped and secured with porcelain 'washers' and kanthal wire. Seems
to work pretty well. Of course such would need to be sized to your
chamber capacity. Fiber is light weight to ship, as is stainless pipe.

Cheers, Hank
www.murrow.biz/hank