[TheForge] Mineral Wool

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

I thought so too Jerry, so i painted the inside of my wife's old 
electric pottery kiln with it and it still takes about the same 
amount of time to sag those cones....dunno...pf

Jerry Frost wrote:
> This topic has been coming up for as long as I've been on the list and 
> for the reasons you give it's virtually imossible to make a meaningful 
> determination.
> 
> There is however one meaningful test a person can do and that's measure 
> their forge before and after applying an IR reflective coating. 
> Unfortunately that's only going to tell you what happened in one 
> furnace. Maybe if enough people did it and recorded the results in a 
> central file we could develop a range of expectations.
> 
> Till then we have only the manufacturers data and anecdotal evidence. 
> The anecdotal is impressive enough to make using an IR reflector 
> regardless of furnace liner type a no brainer though.
> 
> Frosty
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> From: "Kathy" <keporter at comcast.net>
> 
> 
>> Jerry,
>> The problem does not come in measuring internal temperatures, but in 
>> comparing
>> apples and oranges. The temperature in one forge, no matter how 
>> scientifically
>> gathered, simply won't apply in the next man's forge.
>>
>> For about six months I answered one challenge after another from 
>> people who
>> insisted they had built my burner designs "exactly according to 
>> directions" and
>> "completely by the book." It was quite an education. Finally, I told 
>> the last
>> naysayer that I would fix his burner for free, just like all the 
>> others--but I
>> would also post what I found out about it on Castinghobby (the Yahoo 
>> newsgroup
>> where I was being constantly challenged after Gas Burners was 
>> published). He
>> decided that he didn't want anything to do with the "freebee" on those 
>> terms,
>> and the river of people who kept insisting they had built their 
>> burners "exactly
>> according to specifications" suddenly dried up.
>>
>> Burners are only one part of the heating system we call forges. Point 
>> taken?
>> Mikey
>>
> 
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