Thank you for the kind remarks they help me a lot.
Due to the enormity of this project (for me anyway) I have decided not to post anymore photos or reports on the forum at the present time. I am not upset with anybody I am just trying to lessen the load so to speak the less distractions the better. What I am disappointed in is that I sent a number of emails to certain gentlemen on the internet (No one here) about plans and information and made it clear I was prepared to pay for any costs involved with no questions asked and never received one reply not even to say we don't do that anymore, nothing. So I decided to go alone and design my own blast furnace I scoured the internet and bought up virtually every book I could lay my hands on about modelling the steel industry including long out of print Dean Freytag's books, all the Morning sun books the Ghost rail books anything and everything I could lay my hands on copied photos from the internet filed them neatly in folders had my good friend draw up some basic CAD drawings and started, I am about half way there with a "Made in Australia" American blast furnace.
When the Furnace is finished I estimate it will have costs me at least $2500 probably more, without my labour costs. I have bought endless Evergreen/Plastruct packets and of course I would not mentioned how much the above books have cost and the shipping. Do I regret starting this project? NO I don't, I have found it to be one of my best modelling projects ever and I enjoy every minute of it even when I dropped the superstructure off the furnace onto the floor six feet down onto a concrete floor and destroyed it, I just sat down stunned for an hour and started again this time more carefully.
Keep in mind I don't have the Skills and resources that Dave and Alan but they had to start somewhere once to I just started late! I'm just a average modeller who won't give up easily.
That's all I have to say one day you will see the results.
Thanks.
Roo.