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Jim Elbrecht Jim Elbrecht is offline
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Default Repair a broken CHIMINEA style patio fireplace

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:32:01 -0400, "Colbyt"
wrote:

A friend of mine had some high winds and her patio table was blown into and
knocked over her CHIMINEA style patio fireplace. It was a fairly clean
break right where the chimney starts.

She has built a small fire in it after the accident and reports that there
is only a small amount of smoke leaking around the crack. Looking for
something simple to secure the two pieces back together. I thought of fire
clay but that might not be so simple. I would prefer something she could do
herself.

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A pottery group might be a better place to ask. Personally I'd be
afraid of there being a thousand small hidden cracks just waiting for
the worst possible time to cause the whole thing to explode.

You're talking about pottery that will be asked to go from ambient
temperature to several hundred degrees in a few minutes.

Jim