Chris Stanley on mon 15 jul 96
Well, here goes nothing. Does anyone out there remember a Ceramic
Engineer by the name of Maynard Boliki? I remember an article he wrote on
building a small thermo-gradient kiln out of electric kiln elements, some
refractory cement and chewing gum. (pre bubble yum era) For the life of
me I cannot remember where the article was printed.
If any of you out there remembers, or if you have built one of these
puppies please send the information.
Has anyone out there ever built a Thermo-gradient kiln using gas instead of
electricty?
Patrick & Lynn Hilferty on tue 16 jul 96
>Well, here goes nothing. Does anyone out there remember a Ceramic
>Engineer by the name of Maynard Boliki? I remember an article he wrote on
>building a small thermo-gradient kiln out of electric kiln elements, some
>refractory cement and chewing gum. (pre bubble yum era) For the life of
>me I cannot remember where the article was printed.
>If any of you out there remembers, or if you have built one of these
>puppies please send the information.
>
>Has anyone out there ever built a Thermo-gradient kiln using gas instead of
>electricty?
It's in an old Ceramics Monthly (one of many I nabbed from my grandmother)
from the '70s. I remember that the photos showed a bunsen burner stuck in
one end to get reduction.
I saw a similar (sort of) arrangement at SJSU: an AIM test kiln modified to
take a bunsen burner so as to produce reduction effects in really small
kiln loads. Andrea ( forgot her last name but she was on the cover of CM,
and if you saw the cover you'd understand Andrea's interest in small kiln
loads) And Darrell Grey, the technician worked on it. The idea was that the
electric kiln would take the ware to temp and the burner would simply
reduce the atmosphere. It was cute, though not entirely successful.
Patrick Hilferty
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