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Repairing the fireclay elements in a traditional gas fire?
I have a standard gas fire, the likes of which have been around since the
1970s and maybe earlier. They have a set of (usually 3 or 4) white fireclay (or similar) elements into which the flame rises. You knowm the things that are fully visible and get heated heat up by the flame. They are removeable, and are not fixed in place. One of mine is broken in a cople fp places. Is it possible to glue it together with something? Is there a glue that will stand such high temperatures? Thanks.. Al |
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On 19 Aug 2011 09:51:01 GMT, AL_n wrote:
Is there a glue that will stand such high temperatures? Cherry red... I doubt it. Wire the bits together but any wire in the flame path will get erroded. Is the fire 1970's vintage or was that only to give an example of the type? If it's a more recent fire say up to 15 years old one might still be able to get a replacement "fire block", I doubt that anything would be avialable for a 40 year old fire... "gas fire radiant spare*" seems to produce some interesting looking hits. -- Cheers Dave. |
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"Dave Liquorice" wrote in
ll.co.uk: On 19 Aug 2011 09:51:01 GMT, AL_n wrote: Is there a glue that will stand such high temperatures? Cherry red... I doubt it. Wire the bits together but any wire in the flame path will get erroded. Is the fire 1970's vintage or was that only to give an example of the type? If it's a more recent fire say up to 15 years old one might still be able to get a replacement "fire block", I doubt that anything would be avialable for a 40 year old fire... "gas fire radiant spare*" seems to produce some interesting looking hits. Thanks for the ideas. I don't know the actual vintage of the fire, but it's a Valor "New Firelite", Serial No. 308 94. I can't seem to find any mention of replacement blocks for it on the 'net. Due to the nature of the break, it's not going to be easy to wire it together. I thought there mighht have been some kind of fireclay cement that will stand high temps. I guess silicone is out of the question, is it? In my days of British motorbikes in the 1970s, we used orange hermetite (silicone gasket goo) on cylinder heads which got pretty hot. The breaks are at the lower portion of the fire block, at the front - probably not the hottest part of the block... If the thing was simply broken in half, horizontally, I'd rely on trusty gravity to hold it together, but that's not applicable here. Al |
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Repairing the fireclay elements in a traditional gas fire?
"AL_n" wrote in message ... I have a standard gas fire, the likes of which have been around since the 1970s and maybe earlier. They have a set of (usually 3 or 4) white fireclay (or similar) elements into which the flame rises. You knowm the things that are fully visible and get heated heat up by the flame. They are removeable, and are not fixed in place. One of mine is broken in a cople fp places. Is it possible to glue it together with something? Is there a glue that will stand such high temperatures? Thanks.. Try searching for "gas fire radiants". |
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Repairing the fireclay elements in a traditional gas fire?
On Aug 19, 10:51*am, "AL_n" wrote:
I have a standard gas fire, the likes of which have been around since the 1970s and maybe earlier. They have a set of (usually 3 or 4) white fireclay (or similar) elements into which the flame rises. You knowm the things that are fully visible and get heated heat up by the flame. They are removeable, and are not fixed in place. One of mine is broken in a cople fp places. Is it possible to glue it together with something? Is there a glue that will stand such high temperatures? Try polyfiller and pva. Let it set overnight before lighting up. |
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Repairing the fireclay elements in a traditional gas fire?
Correction not polyfiller I think it was plasterboard adhesive and pve
I used. It was just to patch an element with a hole in it. A thin slurry might weld it up. I doubt it will look pretty though. |
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Repairing the fireclay elements in a traditional gas fire?
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:51:01 +0100, AL_n wrote:
I have a standard gas fire, the likes of which have been around since the 1970s and maybe earlier. They have a set of (usually 3 or 4) white fireclay (or similar) elements into which the flame rises. You knowm the things that are fully visible and get heated heat up by the flame. They are removeable, and are not fixed in place. One of mine is broken in a cople fp places. Is it possible to glue it together with something? Is there a glue that will stand such high temperatures? Thanks.. Al Try Gasworks 299 Shirley Road Southampton Hampshire SO15 3HU Telephone: 023 8078 3031 Fax: 023 8049 9035 Web: http://www.gasworks.co.uk They were very helpful when I needed new radiants a year or so back for an old New World gas fire. -- Rod |
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Repairing the fireclay elements in a traditional gas fire?
On Friday, August 19, 2011 at 10:51:01 AM UTC+1, AL_n wrote:
I have a standard gas fire, the likes of which have been around since the 1970s and maybe earlier. They have a set of (usually 3 or 4) white fireclay (or similar) elements into which the flame rises. You knowm the things that are fully visible and get heated heat up by the flame. They are removeable, and are not fixed in place. One of mine is broken in a cople fp places. Is it possible to glue it together with something? Is there a glue that will stand such high temperatures? Thanks.. Al Found This; http://shop.vitcas.com/premium-flue-...310ml-56-p.asp |
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Repairing the fireclay elements in a traditional gas fire?
On Friday, August 19, 2011 at 10:51:01 AM UTC+1, AL_n wrote:
I have a standard gas fire, the likes of which have been around since the 1970s and maybe earlier. They have a set of (usually 3 or 4) white fireclay (or similar) elements into which the flame rises. You knowm the things that are fully visible and get heated heat up by the flame. They are removeable, and are not fixed in place. One of mine is broken in a cople fp places. Is it possible to glue it together with something? Is there a glue that will stand such high temperatures? Thanks.. Al Found : http://shop.vitcas.com/premium-flue-...310ml-56-p.asp |
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Repairing the fireclay elements in a traditional gas fire?
These fires go back a very long way, we took two out of the chimney breast
upstairs in the current house many years ago. it was built in 1939, and all the houses were fitted with them. Brian -- From the Sofa of Brian Gaff Reply address is active Remember, if you don't like where I post or what I say, you don't have to read my posts! :-) wrote in message ... On Friday, August 19, 2011 at 10:51:01 AM UTC+1, AL_n wrote: I have a standard gas fire, the likes of which have been around since the 1970s and maybe earlier. They have a set of (usually 3 or 4) white fireclay (or similar) elements into which the flame rises. You knowm the things that are fully visible and get heated heat up by the flame. They are removeable, and are not fixed in place. One of mine is broken in a cople fp places. Is it possible to glue it together with something? Is there a glue that will stand such high temperatures? Thanks.. Al Found : http://shop.vitcas.com/premium-flue-...310ml-56-p.asp |
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Repairing the fireclay elements in a traditional gas fire?
wrote in message ... On Friday, August 19, 2011 at 10:51:01 AM UTC+1, AL_n wrote: I have a standard gas fire, the likes of which have been around since the 1970s and maybe earlier. They have a set of (usually 3 or 4) white fireclay (or similar) elements into which the flame rises. You knowm the things that are fully visible and get heated heat up by the flame. They are removeable, and are not fixed in place. One of mine is broken in a cople fp places. Is it possible to glue it together with something? Is there a glue that will stand such high temperatures? Found This; http://shop.vitcas.com/premium-flue-...310ml-56-p.asp You're 5 years late. |
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