Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: mullet on January 29, 2012, 01:08:25 pm
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Whooohoo, look what I found at the Flea Market this morning. No more fire pit and charcoal :)
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i have been looking for one for years. what temp does it go up to?? how much did you pay?
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I don't know, it says low/high. I'll have to get a thermometer and thermostat from work. I paid $50 with extra elements and ceramic stands. ;D
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$50? Can't beat that deal with a stick. Some guys are just lucky.
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you dirty dawg! Congrats bud, I need to start going to those flea market type events more....
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What you have is the shell of a rock cooking kiln. In other words the controls will not work for rock. They heat way too fast and go way too high. Hard to tell but it looks like about two bucket capacity. If you are lucky one switch and one coil will heat it but it may take two switchs and two coils. Most of my kilns have two switch two coil set up for 110. You can either buy or make new coils and the switchs are Robert Shaw5500-135. They run around 30 bucks each now. You can buy a coil for around 20. So for about another 100 you will be in rock cooking business. The coils in a ceramic kiln have been heated to very high temps and will be brittle. Even if you are able to get them hooked up they will fail sooner or later. Better to do it right the first time and it is not a hard thing to do. Mike Smyth
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Great find Eddie!! Sooooo................What ya gotta have for some cooked rock ::) ::) ;D
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Mike, it's a Paragon A66. It has a low, med, and high knob. Do you know what the temperature is with each setting? I couldn't help myself, I'm cooking coral on the low setting right now. I used a Buddies which was like this one and it cooked it pretty good on the low setting. It also says the Max temperature is 2300dgs.
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Dang Eddie! I think you stole it.
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Eddie, Google Paragon A66 and set a set of plans with the specs.
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Pat, I already have, thanks. It also came with a bunch of extra, new coils and the ones in it were just replaced. Seems to be working alright, haven't heard any blowing up yet. :)
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My question, You got a rock cooker on steroids and still put a wood burner in your shop? In Florida?
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:-[ :-\ Really, it's gonna get cold. Cold weather sucks! I hate working in Canada, too, except for the people. ;)
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Great find at a fantastic price and already cooking rock. Rick B
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Don't know what they do. Only way to know is put a thermometer on it and see how fast it ramps and how hot it gets. All except computer controlled that I know of usually raise too fast and get too hot. You may get lucky but I doubt you will have a lot of control. Mike Smyth
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Good buy Eddie ;)
Cipriano
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I know were I can get cooked now 8)
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I cooked a whole kiln full of Alifia coral (see bonepiles post) yesterday. I am going to have to change the switch or get used to cooking fast. After 3 hours on low I heard a piece pop.I unplugged it and let it cool down overnight. I lost two pieces of Perdnales but all the pieces of coral was still good except a big piece that just broke in half. And it all was treated pretty darn good. I could probably get used to heat treating coral in 3 hours, kinda like microwave cooking. ;D
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Eddie do have any idea how hot it got? You can use a regular cooking probe to monitor temps. Most of the long stemmed ones go to about 600. That TX is picky about heat and I have never cooked Coral. One thing I have learned is that if you have a large load or large size pieces slow ramps and long holds on the low side of danger zone is what you want. If it is fresh dug is is also good to be able to hold it at around 200 to dry before you ramp up the temp. Happy cooking. Mike Smyth
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Mike, I'm guessing it didn't get over 500-550. This kind of coral will blow to hell much hotter than that. I usually cook it all night at 500. I never ramp coral up when I've cooked it before. I've tried it a few times and never noticed a difference. i've got a but that is going to change the switch out so I can adjust the heat.
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Eddie, when you get that thing all figured out let me know. I've got two in the shop that have been sitting there for years waiting for me to do something, ha..
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Wil do, stranger ;).
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::) :).
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Nice!