Omer Artun on fri 11 oct 96
Hi ,
I am trying to find out if there is a cheap way to make or find a substitute for
stilts? I use a lot and it becomes expensive to buy them.
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Jo Ann Stevens on fri 11 oct 96
Hi
It has been years since I used stilts, but I remember using (and just went
and dug them up) a product called SPEEDY SPURS. They look pieces of barb
wire and I used them a lot, because of the flexibility of arranging them.
You determine where the points of contact are. The info on the package is
"one size stilts all ware, for use up to cone 01, COLE CERAMIC LABS,
Sharon, Conn." I purchased them from NASCO. I don't have a recent
catalogue but Tom
Colson posted a inquiry about them recently.
Hope this helps.
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>Hi ,
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>I am trying to find out if there is a cheap way to make or find a
substitute for
>stilts? I use a lot and it becomes expensive to buy them.
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>Neural Systems, 401 863 3920 (office)
>Department of Physics 401 863 3494 (fax)
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Jo Ann Stevens,
St. Catharines, Ont. Canada
jstevens@niagara.com
Talbott on fri 11 oct 96
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>Hi ,
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>I am trying to find out if there is a cheap way to make or find a
>substitute for
>stilts? I use a lot and it becomes expensive to buy them.
Yes there is a cheaper way --find a fire brick/refractories supply company
in your area and tell them what you need--they should be able to cut 2"x2"
hard bricks to your specified lengths---Marshall
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Marshall Talbott
Pottery By Celia
Route 114
P.O. Box 4116
Naples, Maine 04055-4116
(207)693-6100 voice and fax
clupus@ime.net
Andrew S Lubow on sat 12 oct 96
Thompson Enamel carries all metal stilts contact them a 650 Colfax
Avenue, Bellevue, KY 41073 phone # 1- 606- 291 -3800, Fax 1-606-291-1849
On Fri, 11 Oct 1996 12:44:07 EDT Omer Artun writes:
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>Hi ,
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>I am trying to find out if there is a cheap way to make or find a
>substitute for
>stilts? I use a lot and it becomes expensive to buy them.
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>Neural Systems, 401 863 3920 (office)
>Department of Physics 401 863 3494 (fax)
>Box 1843
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Tracy Dotson on sat 12 oct 96
A good way to get great kiln posts is to have some one cut up soaps. 2X2
1/2X9 inches. One cut gives two posts. 2inch and 7 inch, 3 inch and 6 inch
etc. I usually try to get a good super duty soap to cut so that they will
support alot of weight and last longer.
Good luck. Tracy
Penland, NC
Frist frost today! Seven months until spring. I shouldn't thave counted.
Estelle Renberger on sat 12 oct 96
it is also possible to make little flat disks of any size you choose..(I
make them about the size of a quarter)...from whatever clay body you are
using and place them under the ware...simple..free and reusable!!
Don Goodrich on sun 13 oct 96
I've made metal stilts and points out of stainless steel welding rod. Some
hardware stores have it and of course welding supply stores do. Used 'em
when firing porcelain thimbles and bells to ^6. I used 1/8" diameter rod and
removed the flux coating (don't know what it would do in the kiln, but
suspect it would be messy), then cut and bent the rod as required. With some
creative bending, you can come up with a variety of custom kiln furniture
from this material. Don't think I'd risk firing anything heavy on it, though.
You can also make small stilts by poking lengths of the aforementioned
stainless rod into flat-bottomed lumps of porcelain or wadding clay (75%
alumina, 25% EPK, 25% Hawthorne bonding clay). Be sure to fire these before
using them, in case they crack. If they do, the metal can be reused.
Don Goodrich in warm and sunny Zion, Illinois
Eleanora Eden on sun 13 oct 96
Hi Omer and all,
I always stilt my work and buy just about every kind of stilt around just
in case I might need it. I reuse them til I drop and break them so they
seem very inexpensive especially since they get me where I want to go.
But I also make my own stilts mainly because that way I can have choices
in the vertical space I'll have to devote to the stilting. ?The
catalogs will sell you kanthol wire. You don't want the skinny stuff
that comes in small packaged coils, it won't do the job. Laguna sells
two sizes and the smaller is good and the larger is humungous but fun
and excellent for some jobs.
You have to make a bunch of pieces of kanthol wire the same length, as
exact as you can, and knead (oh, I mean wedge) some vermiculite into a
fistful of your loosest clay body I use my raku body. Make one-point
stilts like hershey's kisses and three-point ones from triangular pieces
of clay cut from a thin slab.
Eleanora
PS I get payola neither from Laguna nor Hershey's.....
Eleanora Eden 802 869-2003
Paradise Hill
Bellows Falls, VT 05101 eden@maple.sover.net
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