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Quote: Originally posted by macckone  | Magnesia is easily synthesized.
Start with sorel cement, heat until all the HCl is given off.To make it impermeable you can treat it with milk of magnesia (use the low sodium
variety).
Then treat with linseed oil, which will crosslink and carbonize under heat.
At the working temperature you are hoping to achieve, the carbon with graphitize.
This yields a magnesia/graphite composite that is very durable and capable of withstanding all but the highest temperatures (> 2500C) and is more
resistant to oxidizing conditions. |
I thought cement is basic so it never can contain HCl ?
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| Quote: Originally posted by macckone | Magnesia is easily synthesized.
Start with sorel cement, heat until all the HCl is given off.
To make it impermeable you can treat it with milk of magnesia (use the low sodium variety).
Then treat with linseed oil, which will crosslink and carbonize under heat.
At the working temperature you are hoping to achieve, the carbon with graphitize.
This yields a magnesia/graphite composite that is very durable and capable of withstanding all but the highest temperatures (> 2500C) and is more
resistant to oxidizing conditions. |
I find the idea very interesting - Thank you! I'll be ordering a technical grade MgO fired from magnesite and MgCl2 hydrate. Maybe a cleaner chemical
grade MgO would be much better, because I don't know what sodium content the one extracted from magnesite normally has? But this technical MgO is very
cheap...
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ZrO2 becomes conductive when heated up above 800C or so. That complicated a furnace made from these bricks even more.
The MgO may be the way to go.
https://news.thomasnet.com/fullstory/magnesium-oxide-ceramic...
Lanthanum Chromite
A heating module for service in oxidizing gas media at temperatures up to 1700°C is proposed. Results of an analysis of the thermally stressed state
of lanthanum chromite-based heaters designed in various configurations for use in the heating module are reported.
Paper attached. Not terribly useful IMO but interesting reading.
Yob
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metalresearcher,
Sorel cement is not the same as regular cement.
It is an oxychloride and I assure you it gives off HCl when heated above the required temperature.
Calcined magnesium oxide is quite unreactive to HCl.
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Has this device a thermocouple ( or perhaps a thermopile(a numbe of thermocouples connected in series )) inside as the 'working' element with just
a lense directing the heat?
Can they be made successfully in the garage.?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284502206779?hash=item423da7293b:... *
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Well that's how some IR spectrophotometer detectors work xD.
I had the idea of using a PIR detector from a cheap motion sensing unit, at a first glance it looks like it is made to detect a temperature difference
more than an exact value.
Quickly reading how old pyranometers worked there is one that is pretty simple. Just a tube with a filament in the middle, you look at the inside of
the furnace through the tube and crank up the current of the filament until it "disappears" since it is the same color of the furnace, aka the same
temperature.
It needs to be calibrated in order to correlate current to temperature, and right now i have no idea how to do that, maybe looking at a metal while it
melts so you can assume that is the melting temperature of the metal (aluminium, copper and silver, 3 points for a pretty crappy calibration curve)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearing-filament_pyrome...
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I have one of those devices, a Hartmann & Braun, which was purchased from a German flea market.
It goes up to 2000C. A three volt battery works OK in it. A two volt battery would probably do. It is quite old, forties or fifties?
I have just crancked it up for the first time. I need an open fire to test it on. Most lights are too white and therefor give a false impression that
they are at a very hight temperature (I think).
Here is one the exact same (amazing internets).
http://www.deprez.org/folio_0024_en.html
The description of operation is not correct (I think). There are two scales. One is for when the red filter is in the line of view (the higher
temperatures) and the other when the red filter is not in line. The filiment must be easier to see (harder to make disappear) when the red filter is
in line and therefor you must dial up more current to make it disappear?
If anyone can shed any light on how to operate the device I would be grateful.
There is a pyrometer below which uses a thermocouple with thermocouple still attached. If you look at the 'batch No.' on the instrument it says
Pt/Pt.Rh. Is that a Platinum Rhenium thermocouple that in still attached I wonder? They are mighty expensive.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Portable-CAMBRIDGE-PYROMETER-0-14...
Here is an example of another disappearing filiment from ebay.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/363668752251?hash=item54ac58c77b:...
and here
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/124439566941?_trkparms=amclksrc%3...
A real beauty here for $ale:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/333111230230?hash=item4d8ef9ff16:...
Yob
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I was thinking on something like this to a high temperature heater: a tube made of high alumina or magnesia filled with compacted graphite on center
to increase the electrical resistance and graphite rods on the extremities as contact tips
will it work?
Hue Hue Hue
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