Fiberfrax and soft firebrick supplier (ABQ or internet)?

There is, or used to be a large jewelers supply in Albuquerque called Rio Grande Jewelers Supply. They carried all kinds of refractory material for casting & silver soldering. I specifically remember white soldering blocks that were made from Alumina if I recall correctly. Take a walk through the Yellow Pages. Bugs

Must not be a lot of hot furnaces in NM?

Go here, look around, but the nearest for you is either Texas or Utah, bummer...

Howdy!If you can't find that stuff localy,id suggest Darren Ellis,he handles small quanties and his prices seem good to me.I just bought

20lbs of satinite from him .Heres the addy for his website

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Have you tried

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Don't specifically recall seeing firebrick, but they had kiln cement when I shopped there 7 years ago.

$4 a brick sounds about right now days, I guess.

I paid $2.37 at Phoenix Brick Yard, they also had at least five different types to choose from. The ones I picked were the most insulating but not the highest temp. Mine feel like styrofoam.

OP, do you want them for forging?

My setup's only good enough for heat treating...

The regular fireplace bricks around the bottom were 45c each. :) That sucker's had at least 20 different configurations over the years. :)

Alvin in AZ

The soft, insulating firebricks are good, but they are rather fragile when at temperature. The heavy-duty ones take longer to come up to heat, but are much more sturdy. You might want to use heavy-duty bricks in the floor of a forge, or any place the bricks might get knocked over...

I'm using stacked bricks for the mouth of my forge. It's easy to hook the end of a piece and pull over the bricks when taking something out of the forge. I've done it a couple of times...

I have a bunch of Fiberfrax-----did you get my reply of 10 minutes ago?? it didn't show up in my "sent" file---Jerry

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It appears that you tried to post a binary. Don't do that.

Yeah don't do that. If you have a picture you want us to see and don't have a place to show it, start a new thread and we'll talk about it there, ok? :)

Maybe it wasn't a picture, just some sissy-ass fancy colors and fonts? (he might be using his 12 year-old-daughter's computer?;)

Anyway this was un-cross-posted down to a.c.b only.

Alvin in AZ

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Sorry 'bout dat--I thot I was replying to the original poster ONLY--Jerry

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I'm currently looking for board, not blanket, but I'll keep you in mind if I ever get around to building a more permanent forge.

Bert

jerry wass wrote:

Their website does show firebrick, but no Fiberfrax board. Their bricks are a little pricier than other online sources, but since there would be no shipping they may end up close to the same. Thanks for the info.

Bert

Thanks to all who responded. In case anyone is interested, here's what I found on the suggested websites:

- couldn't navigate beyond the home page (could be a browser issue)

- no bricks or refractories

- Fiberfrax blanket but no board; no bricks

- Fiberfrax board and blanket, no bricks

- ceramic fiber board and blanket (brand not specified), no bricks

- no bricks or refractories

- bricks, Kaowool board and blanket

- Insboard, Inswool, bricks

how much do you need? a bunch of us recently got together and purchased a palette of 2" vermiculite boards from europe, but that's a lot of board. there isn't any left, but i can get you a contact for the person who set it up.

Look also for "boiler liners".

LLoyd

I've bought from budgetcastingsupply - still have some at hand and good product.

Perhaps the issue on the

- it uses java to point to the various pages. Must have java enabled.

Have you checked the local fireplace, ceramics, etc supply house in town ? or near by ?

Martin