Kiln Burner Update

My test of the kiln burner was inconclusive. It seemed that I wasn't getting gas to the burner manifold. I had to cobble together fittings to reduce the supply line from 5/8" to 1/2" to connect to the manifold, and one of the fittings was a ball valve I had to connect backwards. I don't think the direction that the gas travels matters with this valve, but I could be wrong.
The pressure gauge on the manifold didn't register. There is a thermocouple on the front burner that will open the main valve to the burners when it's hot, but at least I should have been able to light the pilot light.

It's difficult working next to the water heater, and too much screwing around with the home gas lines makes me nervous, so the plan now is to first try and connect the manifold to a small tank of propane for trouble shooting. Once I get the thing working, I can hook it up again with natural gas and test the pressure here at the house.

Russian Analysts Find Russian Climate Data Manipulated

http://global-warming.accuweather.com/2009/12/was_russian_climate_data_tampe_1.html

A Russian Institute compared the raw climate data from Russia to the doctored data that the UK's Hadley Research Institute included in their "proof" of global warning. It seems that these UK climatologists were discarding data that didn't show a pattern of warming. They only selected climate data to include in their model if it agreed with the foregone conclusion that the earth is warming.