Glass forge troubles

[Pattycake]

I find it super annoying that more often than not my glass forge will break either to broken ceramic insulated pipes or it gets entombed somehow. I like to build my industry in a semi cold area just for the extra cooling but I am always ending up not being able to produce glass there because the cold breaks the pipe. Does anyone know what is the lowest temperature it can be in without it breaking? I wish Klei would change the way it works. 

[gabberworld]

why you use ceramic pipes?

glass liquid can go over 1886c that is en-oh for start damage the ceramic because ceramic have only 1849,9c

[Timotheeee1]

when the molten glass is created, it exchanges heat as if it existed in the lower middle tile of the forge. make sure that tile is well insulated.

[SharraShimada]

Place the forge on insulated tiles, and build an liquid outlet right beside the forge. (output port > 2 tiles of pipes > pipe outlet) That way, it never breaks I had not even one accident ever in years now.  You can let fall the molten glass into a chamber below to prevent overheating the area around the forge.

[JRup]

You could chill the forge itself to very low temperatures in theory. But what one must absolutely must make sure to do is to actually avoid cooling the one space that has the power plug in the building because that one exchanges heat with the environment (this includes the tile directly below so focus on building an insulated tile underneath).

A practical way to use it is in a vacuum with a dab of liquid for active cooling on any of the building's tiles except for the one in the red square. (Atmo-suits would be required for a vacuum, but a CO2 environment with oxygen masks is also good on the quick and easy...)

Regarding pipe damage: molten glass has a very low SHC and will easily exchange heat with the pipes even if using ceramic for insulated pipes. So an easy solution is to use as short a run as possible if in a cold environment - even insulated ceramic pipes will get cooled down in a chilly environment... Once abyssalite-based insulation is available then you can get creative.

[sakura_sk]

2 hours ago, Pattycake said:

or it gets entombed somehow

You could use stock bug fix mod for that. The internal storage of the building is not insulated. The mod fixes that (among other bugs of the game)

[KonfigSys]

I have built the forge in -55C and it works well - warming the space biome and chilling the glass made at the same time.

Also close to where the glass is used for panels.

The trick is - use airflow tiles under the forge (thermo insulated is ok but airflow is even better; I had problems with thermoinsulated when any liquid is dropped to the surface like it could be liquid CO2 in this case)

The outflow pipe is made of obsidian (high temp and high thermal propagation) and not even thermo-insulated. I have never had a problem with the pipe getting damaged.

The outlet is made of steel (or wolframite).

The robominer was used only for shove vols as the room was also used for them till I migrate them into the rocket.

See the setup below

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[Sasza22]

11 hours ago, Timotheeee1 said:

when the molten glass is created, it exchanges heat as if it existed in the lower middle tile of the forge. make sure that tile is well insulated.

Also it`s important to not have any liquids under the glass forge. The glass will exchange temperature with them and vaporize them while cooling down enough to soldidfy in the pipes breaking them right away.