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Mini Charcoal Furnace

Step 7PATIENCE, LET IT DRY!!!

PATIENCE, LET IT DRY!!!
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After the refractory is cured it is time to fire it up....

While waiting I did a bit of aluminum experiment to cheak how hot it gets using my multimeter, nut cracker and camping propane cooker. In the images you can't see the flame but look at the temperature (celsius) on the multimeter screen The nut cracker melted in less then 5 min.
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Sep 9, 2011. 3:13 AMlpdunwell says:
awesome instructable!!
only one thing that could remove confusion: add something to the images to compare size, like a pet bottle or so. i thought this thing was tiny, but obviously it's not XD

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I have too many hobbies and never enough time. My blogs: Paracord projects: www.paracord-projects.blogspot.com- Metal Casting: www.flamingfurnace.com