I was doing an experimental sawdust burn today,burning nothing but fines, it was like flour. After 20 minutes or so when i looked into the secondary chamber, I noticed the walls were sagging and the ceiling had bright red drops hanging from it.The refractory is rated at 2600 but the flame was completely clear, mostly hydrogen I think. Ill open it up in the morning and see what happened if anything, maybe I'm spending too much time watching the flame and starting to hallucinate!!
I think i melted my refractory
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I opened up the secondary chamber and where the jet drops down into the chamber there are solidified droplets of something, and the first 8 inches of the tube are no longer flat bricks.I guess no more fines until i beef up the bricks.! I get the pyrometer tomorrow so now I can have some numbers to go with the flame.
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