George Mackie on fri 7 feb 97
On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, Marget and Peter Lippincott wrote:
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> I use a crushed clay from a brick company in my state, Arkansas. It has
> lots of stones the size you discribe, but I know they are there, so I
> turn the clay into slip and run it through a piece of window screen.
> Since all the stones are held back by the screen, I can then add dry
> ingredients to the slip in my Walker mixer.
>
Marget & Peter - dont you have trouble with window screening being so
fragile? The old, metal kind rust out and the new plastic kind tear. I use
dug, natural clay too and crush it when its dry , slurry it, and put it
through a seive made of an old firescreen- lasts for ever. George
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