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mixing glaze/how to:a primer

updated mon 12 nov 07

 

David Woof on sun 11 nov 07


The total best glaze mixer that I have found, and have used nothing else fo=
r 15 years, is a 4" (inch) wire brush wheel welded to a 3/8 inch steel rod =
and attached to a 3/8 or larger electric drill. Cut it's length long enough=
to reach the bottom of a 5 gallon bucket. A quick spin in another bucket=
of water cleans it and it is ready to go into another bucket of glaze or h=
ang to dry for next time.
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Obviously don't use this bad baby in a 1000 gram cottage cheese tub. (thou=
gh you might get away with a 2 inch version on a variable speed drill.)
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This wheel will eat and claw it's way thru settled and caked stuff on the b=
ottom, reach into the hard to reach bottom edges and dimples in the bucket =
bottom while turning the whole mass into a well homogenized glaze ready to =
dip, pour, brush, or spray in a matter of minutes. =20
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Sound like a commercial? Not!!! I decline involvment with corporate amer=
ica and don't care to get involved in disputes over who had the idea first =
and how much money it is worth to whom. But Whirley Mix or Jiffy Spinnero=
o or someone ought to do this one in lifetime stainless for about $150.00 U=
S. I would most likely buy one too, it would save me having to weld anot=
her of my own every couple years.=20
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