home made oven question

[Arakius]

I am planning on making an oven to put outside to bake my sculptures in. I will be using drywall to make the oven and a heat gun to get the temperature correct. I remember seeing a thread about something like that, but I haven't been able to find it. Can anyone help?

Thanks

[cblakey1]

I'm not sure where the thread is, but I remember the pic of his garage that he posted shortly after giving those directions.

[MONSTER]

I'm confused. You're planning on making an oven out of drywall?

[cblakey1]

Originally Posted by MONSTER

I'm confused. You're planning on making an oven out of drywall?

C'mon, man.. you have five minutes of firewall protection with drywall. A couple minutes more with blueboard.

[Arakius]

This will be outside and I plan on venting it enough that the temp should be well below anything that will catch fire. Also, I am just playing with this to see if it will work. It will be nowhere near anything flameable.

[moore_000]

Originally Posted by cblakey1

I'm not sure where the thread is, but I remember the pic of his garage that the posted shortly after giving those directions.

[moore_000]

Why don't you just buy an used oven and have it setup outside of the house for baking your clay.

[Arakius]

I hadn't thought of that. So far, it looks like the plan I currently have will run me about $25 bucks. I just wanted to re-read that thread.

The thought of making my own oven that I can put larger sculpts in and bake without the stench (in the house) appeals to me.

[Arakius]

Originally Posted by cblakey1

C'mon, man.. you have five minutes of firewall protection with drywall. A couple minutes more with blueboard.

I googled the flashpoint of drywall and found that the flashpoint would be 451 degrees (the flashpoint of paper). I will not even come close to that hot. I plan on testing it and adding venting until I hit about 200.

[ALPH4T34M]

Hi there.

I found this link, its showing the steps to construct an oven out of concrete and breeze blocks, none of which are too expensive, but if this a long term hobby of yours then well worth putting up this permanent and more stable structure than using just drywall.

http://www.stefanweisshampel.de/test...hp?recordID=49

You don't have to do all those fancy things that it shows, and you may have to modify it for your purposes but this could be a good alternative and worth the effort.