Nan Rothwell on sun 5 oct 08
Hello friends,
I need some quick advice, please. I just had to suspend firing my salt kiln
-- equipment problems we couldn't overcome on a late Sunday afternoon. At
the time I turned it off, cone 02 was soft. Assuming that we can get the
needed replacement parts and start the kiln up again late tomorrow (or
perhaps Tuesday morning early) will it be okay to leave the current cone
pads in place and just go ahead. I can make an educated guess about early
temps without cones to read. Will the high fire cones (9 - 10- 11) still
read true after heating to 02 and then cooling?
Please let me know ASAP, as if all goes well, I hope to get this thing going
again before it cools enough to open it and replace cones!
Thanks,
Nan
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Nan Rothwell
221 Pottery Lane
Faber VA 22938
434-263-4023
NanRothwellPottery.com
www.VoteForChange.com
David Hendley on sun 5 oct 08
I regularly bisque fire my cone 10 cones to cone 06.
It sounds like you never got much over cone 06,
so the high fire cones should be fine.
David Hendley
Maydelle, Texas
david(at)farmpots(dot)com
http://www.farmpots.com
----- Original Message -----
> Will the high fire cones (9 - 10- 11) still
> read true after heating to 02 and then cooling?
Josh Berkus on sun 5 oct 08
Nan,
> Will the high fire cones (9 - 10- 11) =A0still
> read true after heating to 02 and then cooling?
I'm not a refractory expert, but I don't see why they wouldn't. No length =
of=20
time at Cone 02 would cause that Cone 9 to bend.
=2D-=20
Josh "the Fuzzy" Berkus
San Francisco
Paul Herman on sun 5 oct 08
Nan,
I say "yes", just fire again and trust your instincts about the lower
temperatures of the firing. The higher cones will read accurately.
Best wishes,
Paul Herman
Great Basin Pottery
Doyle, California US
www.greatbasinpottery.com/
On Oct 5, 2008, at 2:44 PM, Nan Rothwell wrote:
> Hello friends,
>
> I need some quick advice, please. I just had to suspend firing my
> salt kiln
> -- equipment problems we couldn't overcome on a late Sunday
> afternoon. At
> the time I turned it off, cone 02 was soft. Assuming that we can
> get the
> needed replacement parts and start the kiln up again late tomorrow (or
> perhaps Tuesday morning early) will it be okay to leave the current
> cone
> pads in place and just go ahead. I can make an educated guess about
> early
> temps without cones to read. Will the high fire cones (9 - 10-
> 11) still
> read true after heating to 02 and then cooling?
>
> Please let me know ASAP, as if all goes well, I hope to get this
> thing going
> again before it cools enough to open it and replace cones!
>
> Thanks,
> Nan
>
> --
> Nan Rothwell
> 221 Pottery Lane
> Faber VA 22938
> 434-263-4023
> NanRothwellPottery.com
> www.VoteForChange.com
>
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