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#4299
Making your own burn out oven 2 Years, 1 Month ago  
Does anybody have a link or plans to build one?Im going to be making a powder coating oven soon too.
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Re:Making your own burn out oven 2 Years, 1 Month ago  
I've got a 20" dia water tank that I want to turn into a burnout oven. Half of it anyway. the other half I want to make into a muller.
I'm going to insulate it with ceramic blanket and then put up a layer of fire brick. I'll probably use a propane weed burner from Harbor frieght for the heat. If it doesn't get hot enough I'll use a force air propane burner. I don't have any plans, I just kind of wing it. I'll put some pictures on when I get it started.
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Re:Making your own burn out oven 2 Years, 1 Month ago  
My other thought was to get an old electric stove and insulate the oven more and wire the heating elements direct, bypassing the temp control. I don't know if it would get hot enough for total burn out of wax, but it might lessen the amount of propane needed to finish it up.
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Re:Making your own burn out oven 2 Years, 1 Month ago  
Oh! Welcome to the forum!!
Let us know what your planning on casting. We all like pictures.
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Re:Making your own burn out oven 2 Years, 1 Month ago  
there are usually heating elements for kilns available on e bay for about 20.00 each
and digital temp controllers with the relay available for about 100.00 then all you need is a housing to keep the heat in
i though about building one but found one cheap on craigs list that works fine for me.
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Re:Making your own burn out oven 2 Years, 1 Month ago  
So I could use a kiln for pottery if I change out the heating elements and temp controls?Or is that not possible.Am I going to need to build the housing?
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Re:Making your own burn out oven 2 Years, 1 Month ago  
i have been useing my kiln as is with no modifications and have had excellent results. I would like in the future to add a digital temp controller to it instead of just going off what color it glows inside to tell what temp it is.
I have also melted aluminum inside the kiln
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Re:Making your own burn out oven 2 Years, 1 Month ago  
Thanks man a nice used kiln that is larger is a lot better then a very small 600 to 1000 burn out oven!Thanks man.Im going to picking people brains for a while new to this.Im going to be making jewelry silver rings and sand casting aluminum motorcycle parts.
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#4501
Re:Making your own burn out oven 2 Years ago  
Nice looking homemade burnout kiln here: derekparkerart.com/artwork/954430_Burnout_Kiln.html
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Re:Making your own burn out oven 2 Years ago  
That's a nice looking oven. I hope he used some ridgidizer on the blanket so there wouldn't be ceramic fibers flying around. Or, there is new kaowool that isn't harmfulto breathe.

Hey, Welcome to the forum.
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