Richard Mahaffey on sun 25 oct 09
I have a produce scale that I use to weigh materials for large batches of
glaze. Makes it nice that you only have to dump a material once into your
bucket. I think it cuts down on the dust over using a triple beam balance
and dumping the feldspar three or four times to get enough for a 5 or 10
gallon batch. WE converted all of our formulas to pounds and ounces and
have not had any troubles with inconsistency in our glazes. With batches
that big the percentage of error is quite small.
YMMV,
Rick
Hank Murrow on mon 26 oct 09
On Oct 25, 2009, at 10:23 PM, Richard Mahaffey wrote:
> I have a produce scale that I use to weigh materials for large
> batches of
> glaze. Makes it nice that you only have to dump a material once
> into your
> bucket. I think it cuts down on the dust over using a triple beam
> balance
> and dumping the feldspar three or four times to get enough for a 5
> or 10
> gallon batch. WE converted all of our formulas to pounds and
> ounces and
> have not had any troubles with inconsistency in our glazes. With
> batches
> that big the percentage of error is quite small.
Another thing that might be mentioned is using a pound scale that
reads in tenths of pounds, rather than ounces. Dairy scales are set
up this way, and digital scales work that way also. I got a nice
digital scale that automatically zeros out the tare weight so the
bucket is compensated for, and it goes to 30 #s. So I can take my
100% recipes and dividing by five get the recipe for 20#s, or divide
by 2.5 and get the recipe for 40#s. Simple, and no fooling around
with ounces.
Cheers, Hank in Eugene
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