From: schillin@spock.usc.edu   
      
   Len Lekx  writes:   
      
   >On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 19:23:07 +0000, Peter Fairbrother   
   > wrote:   
      
   >>RCC is said to be beyond home workshop construction, but I don't really see   
   >>why, if you can get the required high temeratures. You might just be able to   
   >>make it in a suitable microwave oven based furnace.   
      
   >   I don't think there are many homebuilders with blast-furnaces in   
   >their basements.  (I think my property manager would have a fit if I   
   >tried to build one in my apartment...  :-O  )   
      
   There are home hobbyists with kilns that can reach at least 1500 K.  What   
   is the process temperature required for RCC manufacture?   
      
      
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