New man cave!!!!

Discussion in 'General foundry chat' started by DavidF, Jan 26, 2018.

  1. Interesting article. However it would seem, unless you're hell bent to use anthracite, using real charcoal would be more reliable. It is naturally low sulfur. Or you could build a coking furnace to make coke from either anthracite or bituminous. In blacksmithing you have to coke the coal (like making charcoal from wood) in order to get enough heat to melt steel. It is pretty easy to get to temperature with coke or charcoal.
     
  2. DavidF

    DavidF Administrator Staff Member Banner Member

    I don't really want to get into cokeing my own fuel or making charcoal. Be nice if I could just find a supplier for the coke. Not sure if I would build the cupola at all, but if I wanted to go deeper down the iron rabbit hole then the cupola would be the way I would do it.
    It would be nice to be able to use the anthracite since it is cheap and easy to obtain.
    I also read where they did use some hard low sulfur bituminous coal in cupolas as well but it sounds like it only came from certain areas??
     
  3. DavidF

    DavidF Administrator Staff Member Banner Member

  4. PatJ

    PatJ Silver

    I had not heard about using coal in a cupola furnace.
    That is a nice book; I downloaded it.
    It would be interesting to see how that worked.
     
  5. DavidF

    DavidF Administrator Staff Member Banner Member

    Counter tops installed yesterday, worked on tiling the floors today. Wont be long now :D
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  6. Jason

    Jason Gold

    Pretty counters. Did you tile under those lowers?
     
  7. DavidF

    DavidF Administrator Staff Member Banner Member

    Nah...
     
  8. Tobho Mott

    Tobho Mott Gold Banner Member

    Coming along great, looks very nice!

    Jeff
     
  9. Jason

    Jason Gold

    Skipping the dishwasher then? Nothing worse than removing a dishwasher OVER 1/2" of tile.
     
  10. DavidF

    DavidF Administrator Staff Member Banner Member

    No dishwasher. The dogs get the plates clean enough for most all our guests :confused:
    And washing my coffee mug just ruins the flavor for at least a month....
     
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  11. Tobho Mott

    Tobho Mott Gold Banner Member

    I thought it was just me who liked a nice dark patina on the inside of my morning mug! :D

    Jefd
     
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  12. DavidF

    DavidF Administrator Staff Member Banner Member

    I hate laying tile!! :mad::mad: my whole body aches.
    But it's coming along. :p

    @Jason those tile leveling systems are pretty neat. But the problem is that in old homes they can create more problems than they solve. My floors dip toward the center of the room by a couple inches. Sometimes you just have to go for it!! So I started in the center and tiled myself into the corner. Intentionally :cool:
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  13. Al2O3

    Al2O3 Administrator Staff Member Banner Member

    Look at the bright side, if you ever have a big spill it's easy to clean up the puddle in the center of the room.:p

    Best,
    Kelly
     
  14. DavidF

    DavidF Administrator Staff Member Banner Member

    And when I loose the rest of my marbles I will know where to find them :)
     
  15. Peedee

    Peedee Silver

    I swallowed my marble when I was 5, I asked the consultant if he could find it when I had a colonoscopy 40 years later but to no joy so technically I 'lost my marble' a long time ago.

    Nice tiling Mr F certainly moving along :)
     
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  16. DavidF

    DavidF Administrator Staff Member Banner Member

    Ugg, moving day set for next weekend. Finally!
    Still waiting on the new pole building, maybe by the end of the month...
    Bought an older wood stove insert and fired it up to see if would heat the house. Did it ever!!
    Getting that liner up the chimney wasn't much fun either.
    So anyone else heat with wood???
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  17. ESC

    ESC Silver Banner Member

    Yep, about 2 cords a year.
     
  18. DavidF

    DavidF Administrator Staff Member Banner Member

    doesn't sound too bad, but only 2 cords?? What is your winters like?? lowest temps??
     
  19. Robert

    Robert Silver

    When I was growing up in the mountains of western Maryland, we heated with wood. We had a huge furnace with a fire box about 5' x 3' x 4'. I used to fill it with 4' logs and it would burn for more than 12 hours per load. It was jacketed and tied into the central duct system so it worked off the main thermostat. Worked great until we had a chimney fire that cracked the liner!
    That kitchen looks awesome by the way!
    Robert
     
  20. PatJ

    PatJ Silver

    Floor looks great.
    I have seen several heaters that use wood pellets.
    Don't know much about the stoves or the pellets, but apparently it is easier than handling/storing than full sized pieces of wood.
     

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