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glaze/cacl question

updated thu 31 jul 97

 

Colleen Rayner on fri 4 jul 97

Tony Hansen wrote:
>Also the amount of CaCl used here seems incredibly high.


The following was a correction sent in to the list, June 2nd, in regards
to a glaze that I had posted called Extream White ... if you are using
the glaze please make the change in your notes.
>In my rush to get off to Edmonton and the John Leach workshop on Friday
>I put in 3% for the calcium chloride percentage, it should have been
>1.4%
>Everything else is correct. This glaze is like cement at the bottom of
>your bucket within seconds without the c.c.
>BTW, if you are having trouble finding the calcium chloride. Stop in at
>a tire store that sells to farmers. It is used in solution as tire
>ballast in the big four wheel drive models. Keep it tightly sealed in a
>heavy plastic or glass container. It sweats or goes a bit liquid in
>storage.
>Sorry about that folks!