I'm a potter in the Central Illinois area, Bloomington to be exact and am always looking for used fire brick from recent demolition. If there is anyone out there who knows where there is some recent demolition of old smoke stacks ect. Please let me know.
Thanks
sk
contact your local metals heat treament companies. they use similar equipment to potters, but not always similar terms. get a tour if you can to see what they may have around from recently renovated furnaces.
also try to drop in on your local gas-power-electric companies.
you may even have a brick manufacturing plant nearby. there's one near here, lake elsinore california. "pacific clay company". a friend i know there got me in for a tour (1998) and i was allowed to have what i wanted from their scrap pile - bricks, shleving, etc. across the highway was their clay pipe plant, now closed, with several bottle kilns about to be dismantled.
i now work for a lightbulb manufacturing company, and oddly enough see a good deal of high temperature bricks & cloth here & there for varaious manufacturing reasons. in the light FIXTURE part of the plant, NOT the glass bulb side...
point is dead & gone buildings are not necessarily your only source of cast off equipment.
see ya
steve
steve graber
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