More bad news and a Silver lining

Still shaken by the findings of the last week, we get to the workstation to find out that the magic seal is a great seal but a very bad adhesive when it came to attaching heavy object like mirrors to the plywood it was pretty much useless. At least the sauna foil turned out fine. We decided that we need to get stronger adhesive to glue the mirrors. The magic seal when in the tube looks like mixture of ferrous clay and water. When it dries it turns out like ceramic and is very resistance to heat and fire which we found out after some testing (we basically tried to light it in fire, under monitored conditions and with all the safety precaution in mind). It didn’t catch on fire. It did heat up at the point of contact with fire but it could still be held while it was being burnt which was some positive news which we really needed. We also managed to finish the oven and got it ready for testing. We did some preliminary testing of the oven (we let it sit on the sun when it was out. This also yielded a good result and after all the insulation and sealing it did heat up a bit. We still hadn’t attached the windows and the mirrors. 
 

Ceramic inner coating

Window clamped on to the base for testing

Not a very sunny day

We still had all the other problems to worry about and hopefully fix. We decided to go on a journey to seek answers to our problems so we headed to Biltema one sunny day. It was possible the sunniest in the history of our residence in Finland which is about 3 - 4 years for both of us (yes there’s only two of us now to think of it we never mentioned). Biltema was another wonderful place the possibilities there were almost infinite. Of all the time we were there, most of the time was spent running around being amazed by the place. If we have money we would probably buy a lot of stuff and build many little projects. We did find some useful stuff while we were there. We found a strong hollow rod with a base plate that we could fit inside the base and rotate the whole base. We also thought of using an axle which didn’t come cheap and the possibility to get one from the salvage yard. We concluded that we will cut our base into half and rotate half of it while the bottom half would be fixed. We’d achieve this with nothing other than a lazy susan.