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Malm Imperial Carousel - Making Refractory Lining Great(ish) Again

gt1guy said:
So, if you fill it with lump coal, you could probably start forging sword/knife blades inside your house.:beer:

Or blowing glass..............................inside the house.:flipoff2:
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Pretty sure that would wreck all the glass immediately :laughing:

Ceramic glass is rated to ~1400*F and tempered door glass is like 450*F.
 
ExWrench said:
Pretty sure that would wreck all the glass immediately :laughing:

Ceramic glass is rated to ~1400*F and tempered door glass is like 450*F.
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So it's not out of the question:flipoff2:

Can't wait for the knife building thread..................GO
 
ExWrench said:
. . . the vortex is what keeps the smoke and ash off the glass, and swirls all the heat out against a heat diffuser built into the hood.
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gt1guy - while hunting down the right kind of fireplace glass gasket tape this evening on da innaneps, I came across a graphic that explains the airflow better than I did previously:

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Of course that's just advertising, but it pretty much does* that^

* well, did, and hopefully will do again in about a month :laughing:
 
ExWrench said:
gt1guy - while hunting down the right kind of fireplace glass gasket tape this evening on da innaneps, I came across a graphic that explains the airflow better than I did previously:

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Of course that's just advertising, but it pretty much does* that^

* well, did, and hopefully will do again in about a month :laughing:
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That is really cool. I'm surprised you don't see them everywhere. But I guess like you said, maybe they work too good.

The gear head in me says a leaf blower feeding it air would be awesome.:smokin:
 
Is there any way you can think of to validate the thermal effectiveness? Say a 2 kilo chuck of anthracite coal has x amount of btu. Potential. Similar samples are burned in two test stoves. One is Malm and the other a conventional but high end efficient iron stove. They both burn equal quantities of fuel. But you can measure how much useable vs wasted heat is generated. Seems like something you would have seen or read. :beer:
 
Splib said:
Is there any way you can think of to validate the thermal effectiveness? Say a 2 kilo chuck of anthracite coal has x amount of btu. Potential. Similar samples are burned in two test stoves. One is Malm and the other a conventional but high end efficient iron stove. They both burn equal quantities of fuel. But you can measure how much useable vs wasted heat is generated. Seems like something you would have seen or read. :beer:
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That sounds interesting - you should get on it :bounce2:


I've never bought or sold a fireplace or wood stove, and have about 40 years of higher-priority stuff to worry about before that thermal study, but "I'll get back to you" :flipoff2:
 
I am still intrigued by the Malm. It hasn’t fired up yet, has it ? If not, Stay with it slacker :flipoff2::flipoff2::flipoff2:
 
I still need to reinstall all the glass & a few stainless rivets, and we're hopefully still a few weeks away from fireplace season.

I almost started the (4-6 hour) reassembly last weekend, but decided a small tank-style water heater under the kitchen sink was a higher priority because that sink runs off a tankless so it never has hot water until you no longer need it :homer::laughing:
 
It is . . . ALIVE!
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That's the best 10-20 seconds of an egg carton's 2-minute life in an empty Carousel

Since nothing alarming happened, I built a small fire to start curing the refractory.




Then I knocked those little logs down to an even layer so it'd burn slower / cooler



Really happy to have it fixed . . . . after 1-1/2 years broken :homer:

And to have the eyesore thrashed folding table out of the family room :laughing:


Splib said:
It hasn’t fired up yet, has it ?
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Now it has :grinpimp:


Sluggy said:
Hit me up if you still want some IBC totes
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Thank you! :beer:
 
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Can’t see load the videos here with one bar an no wifi. Would you recommend one if heat output was important ? The Malm web page has other styles but they look purely ambiance or ornamental. You mentioned loading oak and walnut Can you throttle that thing down to a dull roar and get more than an hour out of three logs ? Nice job btw and way to see it though. An epic odyssey of flame :flipoff2::flipoff2::flipoff2:
 
Splib said:
Can you throttle that thing down to a dull roar and get more than an hour out of three logs ?
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No, this has no wood stove-like properties other than turning flammable objects into heat. This is only a fireplace for entertaining and rapid heating; slow burning just ain't in it's design.

Anything you put in there will be mostly gone within an hour & fully burned out within 2 hours. Once it's going, the only way to get it not to rage is to put all the wood down at a single level, preferably with little air space under it - if you throw a couple logs cross-ways on what's already burning, it's mission is to consume all that wood :eek:
 
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