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Warning: That cheap firebrick I bought cracked on the first heat
Picked up a pallet of firebricks from a guy on Craigslist. $80 for 50 bricks seemed like a steal. First forge fire hit about 1500 degrees and three of them cracked right down the middle. Turns out they were soft insulating bricks, not the hard dense ones for forge floors. Spent another $60 on proper kiln shelf material to replace them. Wish I'd just bought from a known supplier from the start. Anybody else get burned by a bad materials deal?
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milacraig28d ago
Maybe it's just me but that's a pretty solid silver lining having some nice pavers for the yard out of the deal. Idk, could be worse than getting a free patio out of a lesson learned.
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