EvenHeat 27"?

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Mitchell Knives

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I'm thinking about buying a 27" EvenHeat with a Rampmaster controller. Does anyone here own one of similiar size? I'm wondering if the size of the unit negatively impacts the ramp up time to a significant degree. I'm used to working with smaller units, so I have no idea if the larger unit is going to be much slower.
 
call evenheat and ask to talk to Mike Kelly. He will answer all of your questions. ask him if you can get the controller with the modifications that he and I talked about at Blade Show. also ask for the extra kao wool paper wrap around the bricks. Tell him who you are buying the oven from and have the retailer tell even heat who they are ordeing the oven for. if the mods are done to the controller I think that you will really like possibly even love this oven. If they are not you will still get a good oven.
 
Don't mean to steal this thread, but would be interested in where you can get
kao wool paper back? I want to wrap my homebuilt 28" brick oven with something like kaowool.
 
Thanks Bill. I'll check out my local shop. If I'm understanding correctly it's Kao-wool with a paper backing adhered to it? Haven't heard of it before.

Ken
 
No Ken, what I am talking about is kao wool compressed into a thin sheet similar to constuction paper or caedboard. there are several thicknesses.
 
strange timing on this thread. I'm currently saving for an oven, I've been doing all my annealing, normalizing, and heat treating with the gas forge and it's got a ... feel and a pattern to it, but I am thinking I'll be able to expand things a bit with an oven.

I have 240 in the shop now, so it's mostly been a matter of size and controller. about a quarter of my blades now are big enough that an 18 inch oven won't do, and looking at my order board, of the longer blades, about a third of THOSE won't fit in a 23 inch oven.

So, the question is- how does the larger oven heat up compared to the smaller ones? I could easily get a 18 or even 16 inch oven and just do the larger blades with my forge if the waste factor - doing larger numbers of small blades- is significant.
 
I was a total newbie with the kiln side of things about 2 months ago. I posted on here with some questions and looked around on the web for info, the guys on here have a huge amount of knowledge:D

I ended up building my own kiln, it was very easy and cheap. If you have about 2-3 hours you can build it your self. I made mine out of bricks that my brother got for free which just so happen to be 2300 deg kiln brick, and I got the controler off of ebay cheap
http://cgi.ebay.com/PID-Temperature...313?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2eafa5d8a1
2x25 amp SSR
http://cgi.ebay.com/SSR25A-SOLID-ST...401?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2309f823d1

I used a 40"x.5" twist section of kenthal A1 wire that i got at a pottery place down the road, which was about 40 bucks.

Built the kiln very small as to get the fastest heat treat possible. it used about 16 bricks and is about 4x4.5x22" or so inside I could have added another set of bricks to make it 26-28" deep without much trouble. It will heat up to 1950 in about 38 min if its warm outside. gets to 500 in about 2 min, slows down when it hits about 1750 or so though and then 15 min later gets to 1950.

Little off topic but it might be some help?
 
I have an evenheat 27" with a Set Pro Controller.

Being 220volt it heats up plenty fast. I can do a
ramp to 1500 and hold for 30 minutes and then
ramp to 1800 and hold for 40 minutes and it's done
in about 2 hours. Mine is about 4 years old too so
a new one would probably move a weeeee bit faster.

Get it from Tracey Mickley. He'll find you the best
shipping rate compared to other distributors that
charge an arm and a leg for shipping!
 
Thanks guys!

I'll probably be getting it from Tracey; emailed him earlier about shipping. He seems to have the best price around.

Thanks Pohan! ;)
 
i've got a 40" evenheat..... no problems at all ...with 220v its quick enough to get to 1500F... i'm not sure about stainless type temperatures as i don't use it for knives

only thing i don't like... is that with such a long oven it takes awhile till it cools down enough to temper the steel ....... but thats no sweat at all;)
 
Wow, 40"!

I'm still debating between the 18" and the 27"; leaning towards the 27". I really want to make a machete at some point; impossible with an 18".
 
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Well, I ended up getting the 27" from Tracey.

I haven't heat treated anything yet, but I've done a few test runs and every thing seems to be working fine.

I'm going from room temperature to 1500F in about 34 minutes. Not bad considering the volume of the oven.
 
I have an Even Heat 22" and use it mostly for ATS34. It'll get to 1950F in about an hour. I use it at 1500 and it takes about 30-35 min. Don't have a smaller oven to compare to.
 
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