Upgrading Furnace......

My New Years resolution is to finally get settled in our new home and to land a permanent job. With all the downturn and the Economic Crisis, I hope to get back to normal and to figure out what I want to do. I have two choices and both are pretty unsure as in what kind of work I want to do. I can either restart a new Tile Business and start over where I left off, or I can do alot of studying and become a Mining Expert and mine Base and Precious metals. I don't mind either but I think these two choices will cause me to work out of town alot unless I move my family closer to work. When things get all settled I am planning to rebuild my furnace and change it over to an oil burning furnace. Coal, briquettes and wood are nice but they seem to burn out to fast and I have to keep it restocked or it burns out. I am going to do a combination of propane and oil where I can get it hot real quick with propane then transfer the fuel source over to oil. I haven't decided whether I will do a drip system where the air intake will feed the oil to blast the furnace or do a system with a valve to determine my oil flow into the intake manifold that is mounted on my oven also fed by air. On "Lionels Lab" Website I have been coming up with some really good ideas, which I am a big fan of Lionels creations. I have a link to his website if you are interested in checking out what kind of projects him and his collegues are up to. I also have been offered an oven that is made out of fire bricks with heating elements string inside of the oven to heat it up. This is a 220 volt oven that will get around 2400'F which will melt most metals. I haven't got it yet but I am excited to build me a backyard lab so I can branch out to do my own Fire Assays for testing ores for people. I have a long way to go before I can call myself an Assayer, but I really love working with metals and testing ores for value. I really hope this company down in Searchlight NV pans out because I would really like working with this guy and learning all I can to become a Professional Mining Expert. This would really open up some doors down the road as far as becoming a independent consultant or just working for larger outfits doing Assay work. I'll let you know how things go as soon as they start happening.