New Salt Pot

A C Richards

A C Richards

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Just did a dry run on my new High Temp Salt Pot. I am waiting for the salt from Darrin. Worked great now I just need to hook up the Thermocouple and Solenoid and finish the Burners. Here's a couple of shots of the shell. i will post more pics when finished. All 304 SS. I do not want to do this thing again for a very long time.
 
The shell is 12 inch dia. The center tube is 3" x 24"long. I had the 3" and will do 99% of all I will HT. Darrin is working on getting me the salts, he is looking into flat rate box's since the shipping was going to be a killer.
Ray, I have it inside now and will never see the open sky again. At least until I rebuild it. The whole thing came up to temp fast after it dried out. I have 2 ports but may only need one. I just put the nozzle in the bottom port and fired it off.I had to move it up for a couple of minute to even tings out but then maintained in the lower port. Can't wait to get it up and running and try a HT. I think it is going to be the ticket.
 
Chuck, why's the body SS? I thought only the salt pot itself had to be SS? My teacher has a "dual use" vertical forge. He's running a thermocouple and controller on his vertical forge and has 2 lids for it, one is regular the other has a cutout for his salt pot.
 
My friend Ray Coon made a salt pot several years ago. It took so long to heat up that he went back to his oven. Darn propane just keeps going up and up.
 
I made the body out of a piece of SS pipe I picked up at the scrap yard. It was cheaper than a new mild steel shell. Good thought about dual use. This one heated up in less than 30 minutes running a #54 drill in the orifice with less than 5lbs pressure. It was so quiet and ran smooth. It was still wet also so the pot should heat up pretty fast. It may take longer to heat but it will have a very even heat and the thermal conductivity is so fast that a normal 15min soak can be done in less than 5. So the idea is get a bunch of blades ready and do them all at once. That is what I do now anyway. It just took time I had most of the stuff laying around. The cost of the salt is the biggest outlay of $$. I may even see about augmenting this with waste oil also. Especially if i use an atomizer.
 
I can't remember where I saw it but there's a table on how to make your own salts... came out of an Army machinist's manual.
 
I have the #11 machinery's handbook. It might have it in there. It has all kinds of formulas for cyaniding and coloring metals. Uses things I don't want to mess with though, Arsenic etc..Guess I'll dig it out and see.
 
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