Iron trapdoors or doors with glass windows

[DarkGold]

I have built a little place to fire my charcoal next to my coke ovens. Something I like about my current set up is that I have a glass slab that lets me easily see when charcoal production is finished. I do have to break it every time I finish firing my charcoal to get in, but it's not terribly inconvenient. I was thinking it would be nice if there was a version of an iron door or trapdoor that could have a glass window in it, so that I would be able to look through the door, rather than a separate glass block.

Apparently quartz glass can have a continuous use temperature limit of 900°C to 1,100°C, whereas charcoal kilns typically operate at 400°C to 600°C. So it seems plausible that an iron door could support both a glass window and function in a high temperature environment. We do have windowed iron doors, but they do not seal rooms (they use iron rods, not glass), so it's not possible to use them for charcoal making. Would a third iron door recipe that uses a glass slab be possible? Or a version of the iron trapdoor that uses a glass slab?

Edited 8 hours ago by DarkGold
Removed question about windowed iron doors.

[MKMoose]

11 minutes ago, DarkGold said:

Apparently quartz glass can have a continuous use temperature limit of 900°C to 1,100°C, whereas charcoal kilns typically operate at 400°C to 600°C. So it seem plausible that an iron door could support both a glass window and function in a high temperature environment. We do have windowed iron doors, but they do not seal rooms (they use iron rods, not glass), so it's not possible to use them for charcoal making. Would a third iron door recipe that uses a glass slab be possible? Or a version of the iron trapdoor that uses a glass slab?

Realistically, metal doors with heat-resistant glass viewports seem to have only started appearing in the 19th century. But regardless of the exact temperature ratings for different types of glass, I think it would be fine enough to add a metal door with a viewport, even using regular glass. There's plenty of minor historical and realistic inaccuracies in VS already, and adding one with an actual purpose would be quite fine.

 

3 hours ago, DarkGold said:

I do have to break it every time I finish firing my charcoal to get in, but it's not terribly inconvenient.

You can also just use glass in the wall of the charcoal pit, and a solid door for the entrance. Granted, in your specific example that glass would have to be somewhere on the side since it wouldn't fit on the front (or the door would have to be moved and glass left on the front, or the pit could be made taller), but to me that still seems much better than having to break the glass to go into the room.

[DarkGold]

2 hours ago, MKMoose said:

You can also just use glass in the wall of the charcoal pit, and a solid door for the entrance. Granted, in your specific example that glass would have to be somewhere on the side since it wouldn't fit on the front (or the door would have to be moved and glass left on the front, or the pit could be made taller), but to me that still seems much better than having to break the glass to go into the room.

Agree, there's definitely things I could do to make my life easier. This is a bit of temporary measure while I only have 1 iron trapdoor (I have so many other things to spend iron plates on at the moment), but it did make me think that it would be nice to be able to look through the door.

Edited 2 hours ago by DarkGold
Correcting typos