Hello All: I am building a small kiln that I hope to take up to ^10. I am using an oil burner to get up that high but it heats too quickly at the start so I plan to use a smaller propane burner at first to hold it at about 100c for a while and raise the temp slowley after that, then at some point switch over to the oil burner. the oil burner heats up at aboutb3deg per minute up to
800c then drops to 2 deg per min then heats slower as it gets hotter. What I need to know is how hot should I take it using the propane before I switch to the oil burner? The kiln is a ten brick circumference by 5 rings tall, burner blows in from side of bottom ring under a shelf floor that sits at 1 brick high. it has a 6" hole in the lib with a broken shelf for a damper. Thanks, bri- posted
20 years ago