Fiberglass Insulation

[Indiana-Jones]

Hi, I have just read the book Backyard Surgarin' by Rink Mann.

He insulated his barrel stove with fiberglass batting. Looks like regular R-15. This is my first year and I moved from turkey fryers to butchering the barrel stove in the garage. Now I'm working on improving the setup. Tonight I plan to add some sand to the slope and install some more fire bricks.

I have called around locally looking for some of the ceramic blanket that I have read about here. No luck. So, the question is to fiberglass or not? I have some cement board that I could use to enclose the sides a bit. But Fiberglass a no no?

[bearair]

Call a heating and cooling company, specifically a boiler installer in your area. They should carry the blankets.

[Indiana-Jones]

Put the sand and fire brick in this evening. There is not much bare steel above the brick and below the pan. Thinking that I will see how much this modification helps. I'm not to sure how much of a season is left here in central Indiana. Had a good run today. I will check on some boiler works.

[Haynes Forest Products]

Also call a pottery supply they use it for the homade kilns

[TC matt]

Do a search for refractory supplies in your area - most will sell firebricks and ceramic blanket material. One in Michigan sent me their ceramic blanket leftovers from there large rolls (enough to line my arch 3 or 4 times) for $50.

[WESTVIRGINIAMAPLER]

You can use fiberglass as I used to use it many years ago on cinderblock arches and it worked good and was cheap and fire never seemed to affect it much.

[Indiana-Jones]

Well the season is getting close to over for me here. I have the fiberglass, maybe I do nothing. I took the day off work to boil, looking forward to next year. I see a new set of stainless pans and 100 taps in my future.

Thanks for the info, next time I fire it up I'm going to add a bit of the fiberglass.

I need to work on the pre-heater. A pan across the main pan drips condensate back in to be reboiled. I want to add copper tubing and a 8 " jacket around the 6" flue. Some things to work on before next Friday night boil.