Here's a thought,
from time to time they sell burner cans from old jet engines on ebay. Price
seems reasonable, couple hundred bucks.  Could those be modified to work?

Chris Cosman

You can also pick up new Inconel surplus from refinery and nuclear
applications where they discard/excess the shorts. Lots of stuff is
available....ebay, etc. I have a stash of it.
Marc Wiese


In the past I have been only moderately successful at fabricating/replacing
burner components in my home's 100K BTU/hr gas furnace. Even stainless
seems to crumble after a surprisingly short period of time.

Then a year ago or so we decided to replace our kitchen stove,
and as I stared at the old stove sitting on our back porch
and contemplated the pending disposal fee at the local
recycling center, I decided to see if I could save myself
a few bucks.

I got out my cordless drill and in a surprisingly short
time disassembled the entire stove. I was left with a small
bag of insulation and a pile of  sheet metal which I
conveniently dropped off at a salvage yard.

I saved one component, a chunk of some sort of high
temperature alloy that was used as a heat-shield/flame-deflector
over the oven burner/broiler unit.

What ever this thing was made of, it is some amazing stuff.
After running at red-heat for many years, it still looks
like a piece of new metal.

I now have a piece of metal stock for my future
high-temp experiments.

Maybe I should go into the stove recycling business :)

Robin Berglund

Measure the amount of water it displaces and calculate
the density. If it comes out as the same as gold it is tungsten.

Paul Lamar