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Offline mullet

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Flea Market
« on: January 29, 2012, 01:08:25 pm »
Whooohoo, look what I found at the Flea Market this morning. No more fire pit and charcoal :)
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Offline paulsemp

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Re: Flea Market
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2012, 01:11:18 pm »
i have been looking for one for years. what temp does it go up to?? how much did you pay?
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Re: Flea Market
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2012, 01:16:54 pm »
I don't know, it says low/high. I'll have to get a thermometer and thermostat from work. I paid $50 with extra elements and ceramic stands. ;D
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Offline Tower

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Re: Flea Market
« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2012, 02:10:50 pm »
$50? Can't beat that deal with a stick. Some guys are just lucky.
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Offline Lee Slikkers

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Re: Flea Market
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2012, 02:11:29 pm »
you dirty dawg!  Congrats bud, I need to start going to those flea market type events more....
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Offline chief deer

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Re: Flea Market
« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2012, 02:37:02 pm »
What you have is the shell of a rock cooking kiln. In other words the controls will not work for rock. They heat way too fast and go way too high.  Hard to tell but it looks like about two bucket capacity. If you are lucky one switch and one coil will heat it but it may take two switchs and two coils. Most of my kilns have two switch two coil set up for 110. You can either buy or make new coils and the switchs are Robert Shaw5500-135. They run around 30 bucks each now. You can buy a coil for around 20. So for about another 100 you will be in rock cooking business. The coils in a ceramic kiln have been heated to very high temps and will be brittle. Even if  you are able to get them hooked up they will fail sooner or later. Better to do it right the first time and it is not a hard thing to do.  Mike Smyth
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Re: Flea Market
« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2012, 03:11:55 pm »
Great find Eddie!!  Sooooo................What ya gotta have for some cooked rock  ::) ::) ;D
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Re: Flea Market
« Reply #7 on: January 29, 2012, 04:24:19 pm »
Mike, it's a Paragon A66. It has a low, med, and high knob. Do you know what the temperature is with each setting? I couldn't help myself, I'm cooking coral on the low setting right now. I used a Buddies which was like this one and it cooked it pretty good on the low setting. It also says the Max temperature is 2300dgs.
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Offline FlintWalker

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Re: Flea Market
« Reply #8 on: January 29, 2012, 05:44:46 pm »
Dang Eddie!  I think you stole it.
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Re: Flea Market
« Reply #9 on: January 29, 2012, 05:59:43 pm »
Eddie, Google Paragon A66 and set a set of plans with the specs.
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Re: Flea Market
« Reply #10 on: January 29, 2012, 06:39:05 pm »
Pat, I already have, thanks. It also came with a bunch of extra, new coils and the ones in it were just replaced. Seems to be working alright, haven't heard any blowing up yet. :)
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Offline Bevan R.

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Re: Flea Market
« Reply #11 on: January 29, 2012, 06:44:13 pm »
My question, You got a rock cooker on steroids and still put a wood burner in your shop? In Florida?
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Re: Flea Market
« Reply #12 on: January 29, 2012, 06:50:02 pm »
 :-[ :-\ Really, it's gonna get cold. Cold weather sucks! I hate working in Canada, too, except for the people. ;)
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Re: Flea Market
« Reply #13 on: January 29, 2012, 08:43:01 pm »
Great find at a fantastic price and already cooking rock. Rick B
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Re: Flea Market
« Reply #14 on: January 29, 2012, 10:32:19 pm »
Don't know what they do.  Only way to know is put a thermometer on it and see how fast it ramps and how hot it gets. All except computer controlled that I know of usually raise too fast and get too hot.  You may get lucky but I doubt you will have a lot of control. Mike Smyth
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