Electric Kiln to Gas Furnace?

What?! Another video so soon? Yeah I'm trying to increase my output to weekly. It's bad luck to promise uploads... so no promises that ill keep it up. At any rate quality will suffer but I'm not monetizing them beyond the minimum that I can anyway so...

That coil is like, "omg just kiln me now"

"uhm it's a little warm" *everything inside glowing orange

I did not expect the "check coil lamp" turn out to be a literal, good old "overload LED wire". Made me laugh pretty good.

I love how easy it is to drill and work firebrick. Great material. I'd like to figure out a way to make it myself, I guess maybe like aircrete except made with alumina and waterglass instead of cement. Would be cool if it could be made to self expand. Great build! Wouldn't have thought about the conversion myself but it makes a ton of sense

Hey Cody! These electric to gas kiln conversions are great- a little tip as someone who has used them almost daily for some years now as a potter. If you enlarge your burner ports slightly and mount the burners slightly outside the shell of the kiln, it will provide 2 benefits: firstly, it will provide you with greater control over the combustion atmosphere inside so you can achieve greater efficiencey/temperature. By putting a damper over the flue hole, you will be able to control how much secondary air is dragged into the burner ports by the flame and adjust the mixture. This also cools the burners and prevents the metal scaling away due to oxidation. Adding a squirrel cage blower to each burner also increases the output temperature by a few hundred degrees.

"Probably have to turn the gas off" sounds like he was thinking of it as optional

5:26 That joyous giggle in a few seconds is great to hear from Cody. This guy really appreciates his successes.

I don't know how to explain it, but Cody gives me some "crazy mountain man" vibes in the best way possible

The trip hazards bother me. But nice work man. It's crazy how much heat it puts out.

A broken coil can be repaired. I got an electric kiln for cheap because of the broken wires. I've bought thin Constantan wire, stretched the broken wire a little bit to get the wires to overlap, used file to get the oxide off and the wound the Constantan wire around the overlap to reconnect the wires again. Repaired 5 breaks this way. Works fine for nearly 10 years now. You have to take your time and wind then tight to get a good connection.

Hose management would seem like a good first upgrade

Very clear, very simple demonstration of the energy density of the chemical bond vs readily available electrical power. Most folks do not TRULY appreciate just how many joules of energy it takes to do something and how that equates to electricity. 1 kwh - 3.6 x 10E6 joules. Standard cubic foot of natural gas (SCF) = 1.1x10E6

So happy you got some justice with the whole YouTube/payment debacle. I particularly love the added benefit of getting more mad scientisty videos more often 🙂

i love it when Cody has money. I'm so glad he's getting paid by youtube now.

I grew up watching cody and then youtube stopped showing his vids till i tracked him back down and RESUBSCRIBED. Youtube sucks, cody, you rock. Keep on being a mad scientist

I was not expecting that firebrick lining the kiln to be that easy to cut into. Going at it with a hole saw, one-handed, at an angle too, was surprising.

Glad to see you got over whatever it was, and started posting videos again. Welcome back man.

I'm 00:48 seconds in and as an electrical engineer obviously you could just rewind the heating coils but I'm leaving this comment for the algorithm. The video is about converting it to propane and Cody never fails to make a good video.

Cody, I would watch daily uploads of you just messing around with stuff for 8 minutes.