Did you make your own or is there a good product you'd consider? I've been burning all the paper stuff but was thinking of setting up a steam generator and looking for a way to deal with the plastic stuff I can't re-use or re-purpose.
Made my own out of a furnace blower and barrels, but the barrels need firebrick type lining or they will only last a short time.
Holy smokes, a furnace blower is pretty serious, but yeah I could see that working well. I was thinking of something smaller but I see the scale as I would do something more "washing machine barrel" size for starters. There is a type of cement you can get with a high temp glass. Will that work, or do you recommend the bricks?
Check out the castable refractory used by metal casting folks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFaA218gT2k
I recommend using whatever you can get fairly cheap that's durable enough for "really fucking hot" in the area of 1200C. Industry uses a lot of this stuff so it's actually not as expensive as you might think. Don't bother with Home Depot or the like, it's always a rip off. One of the industry specific businesses in my area gave me good material recommendations when I explained what I was doing (different project than the incinerator though) and outright gave me 3/4 of the material I needed and deeply discounted the other quarter.
Also consider your design carefully for ash clean out, and it'll likely weigh a lot and need a weatherproof cover.
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