Steadycat on sun 26 oct 97
Hi everyone,
I recently purchased a 3" Venco pugmill. Having zero experience with pugmills,
I have no idea how long to make the table beyond the nozzle of the pugmill.
Does anyone out there have any pointers for building such a table? Also, I'd
appreciate any other suggestions about using this pugmill in general.
Thanks in advance,
Cathy Milstead
Suzanne Storer on mon 27 oct 97
Cathy,
I was in your shoes 3 years ago. For my 3" Venco I built a table 52" long
by 20" deep and 23" high. The only thing I would do differently is build it
20" high instead. I'm 5' 8" tall. Make it as sturdy as possible. The legs
on mine are of 4" X 4" wood surrounded at the top by a 2X4 frame with half
inch plywood over the top.
As you know the instructions that come with it are minimal. I use mine
infrequently and, to keep the clay from drying out inside it over long
periods of non-use, I place a wet sponge in the top where the clay goes in
and cover that hole with a piece of heavy plastic held in place with a big
rubber band. Same thing for the end where the clay comes out.
I bought mine from Seattle Pottery Supply and they've been helpful whenever
I needed questions answered.
Suzanne in Utah
Dan C Tarro on tue 28 oct 97
Cathy,
I have a venco 4" in my studio and one of the things that I do is to
leave about two and one half to three feet of table extending beyond the
end of the mill about the same level as the pug that extrudes. What I
then do is to place strips of plastic just under the nose of the mill (
about 20''x30") and as the clay moves from the nose onto the table I
press the end of the plastic onto the end of the clay. The clay drags the
plastic under it and allows it to move less restricted and when I get
about two feet out I cut it off and roll it up in the plastic for
storage. Grab the next strip and start the next pug for storage. The
advantage of this is, it's cheeper than plastic bags, it's faster than
bags, easier to handle than square bags, on a 4" pug 1" = about 1#.
forget the scale, by the inch or multi wire cutter is faster and easier.
Use a heavier grade of plastic, the kind that you buy in the big rolls
for vapor seal on new construction, and don't forget to fold it over the
ends of the pug to seal it up well.
One of the problems that I found with the Venco is that any restriction
in the extruding clay will cause it to back up in the de airing chamber.
Any thing that you can do to prevent this, smooth table for extruding on
with cloth or plastic that will move with the clay, or like in the add
with Mac. in it for Venco, a roller conveyor.
Good luck
Dan Tarro
Oak Tree Stoneware
Ham Lake, Mn
On Sun, 26 Oct 1997 12:29:16 EST Steadycat writes:
>----------------------------Original
>message----------------------------
>Hi everyone,
>I recently purchased a 3" Venco pugmill. Having zero experience with
>pugmills,
> I have no idea how long to make the table beyond the nozzle of the
>pugmill.
>Does anyone out there have any pointers for building such a table?
>Also, I'd
> appreciate any other suggestions about using this pugmill in general.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Cathy Milstead
>
Bill Aycock on tue 28 oct 97
Cathy- I have seen other messages, from people with more current experience
than mine, but one tip I found to help GREATLY was to provide a way for the
pug to slip across the table easily. I used a piece of "4-mil" plastic
sheet- about a foot wide, and fed it up over the edge of the table, at the
end by the nozzle. when the pug starts coming out, I let it contact the
plastic, to which it sticks, and the plastic slides on the table. I had at
least two, as long as the table, ready at all times.
Bill- on Persimmon Hill
At 12:29 PM 10/26/97 EST, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Hi everyone,
>I recently purchased a 3" Venco pugmill. Having zero experience with
pugmills,
> I have no idea how long to make the table beyond the nozzle of the pugmill.
>Does anyone out there have any pointers for building such a table? Also, I'd
> appreciate any other suggestions about using this pugmill in general.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Cathy Milstead
>
>
Bill Aycock --- Persimmon Hill --- Woodville, Alabama, US 35776
--- (in the N.E. corner of the State) ---
W4BSG -- Grid EM64vr --
baycock@hiwaay.net
Ric Swenson on wed 29 oct 97
In North Bennington, we are, fortunately, neighbors of the Chemical Fabrics
Corporation . They make TEFLON coated fiberglass cloth that is VERY slick
and nice for the use you suggest. Teflon is great.......ask Reagan.....(G)
there may be other sources of such slick stuff......TEFLON coated
fiberglass cloth.....like at Denver airport and Mpls Dome....as a roofing
material...
Just a thought ........on a dark Vermont...moonless night.....
Ric
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Cathy- I have seen other messages, from people with more current experience
>than mine, but one tip I found to help GREATLY was to provide a way for the
>pug to slip across the table easily. I used a piece of "4-mil" plastic
>sheet- about a foot wide, and fed it up over the edge of the table, at the
>end by the nozzle. when the pug starts coming out, I let it contact the
>plastic, to which it sticks, and the plastic slides on the table. I had at
>least two, as long as the table, ready at all times.
>
>Bill- on Persimmon Hill
>
>
>At 12:29 PM 10/26/97 EST, you wrote:
>>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>>Hi everyone,
>>I recently purchased a 3" Venco pugmill. Having zero experience with
>pugmills,
>> I have no idea how long to make the table beyond the nozzle of the pugmill.
>>Does anyone out there have any pointers for building such a table? Also, I'd
>> appreciate any other suggestions about using this pugmill in general.
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>Cathy Milstead
>>
>>
>Bill Aycock --- Persimmon Hill --- Woodville, Alabama, US 35776
> --- (in the N.E. corner of the State) ---
>W4BSG -- Grid EM64vr --
>baycock@hiwaay.net
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