Wednesday, August 01, 2007

The kiln we're re-starting!

This is the kiln from 1983 we're trying to startup, many things have to be repaired, but we did 2 simple testfirings without air/oxygen and this more or less went fine.
We have to replace many heating elements and some thermocouples though.......Here you see it from the side.





And here you see it from the "loading side". The big pipe in front is feeding the cooling air during cooldown.








And here is a view on the controlpanel, this is more or less still ok, it was built by us in 2001. Only have to upgrade the cpu and communication cards.....

But this evening the 24VDC/30A power supply broke down. Ordered one straight away from RS and hopefully it is arriving in the factory tomorrow.........I'll keep you posted.

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