Eric Ciup on fri 12 jun 09
I once built a kiln following Holden's plans for a friend. The inner dimens=
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ion was a twenty inch cube, walls were 2.5" of k23 and 4" of calcium silica=
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te board, and the burners were very basic pipe burners salvaged from an oly=
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mpic gas kiln that never worked very well. I could fire a load to 9-10 in a=
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bout 6 hours using a bar-b-que tank of propane. It worked as well as my 16 =
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cu ft kiln. Extremely even in heat as well as reduction. I would consider t=
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his to be the perfect kiln for a non production potter. You can experiment =
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with different firing schedules and reduction levels without breaking the b=
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ank, and you don't have to wait for months to accumulate enough work. As an=
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added plus it can easily be wheeled into the backyard to fire and so you a=
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void some the onerous permitting problems that most gas kiln installations =
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incur.
Good luck=3D20
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