gary navarre on fri 26 feb 10
Hay Crew,=3D0A=3D0A Well I survived! The Hobagama get fired from Thursday t=
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8th. to Thursday the 25th. at 1:45PM. falling asleep with the damper closed=
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only once. My knees don't hurt like when I was crawling around on the grou=
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nd at the kiln Drew Krouse made on the Maltbee Farm near Kalamazoo in the m=
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id '70's. That's the first time I hit ^10 with wood. I didn't start halluci=
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nating like the first time I fired the Hobagama '87. As with all new kilns =
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though this firing might not be vary successful with some pots cracking fro=
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m heat shock from too fast a climb and eventually melting out of shape and =
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the rest being under fired. The front of the chamber right at the throat ar=
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ch got blasted and melted ^11 to a puddle and the cracked Wendt Porcelain D=
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ragon Pots melting out of shape from what what I could see through the Pign=
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ose...=3D0A=3D0Ahttp://public.fotki.com/GindaUP/ca/kpap/wfuph210/working-th=
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gnose-29.html=3D0A=3D0A Through the door spy hole I saw ^01 was down but ^8=
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still standing...=3D0A=3D0Ahttp://public.fotki.com/GindaUP/ca/kpap/wfuph21=
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rking-with-pignose-6.html=3D0A=3D0A Deeper in the door stoke hole near the =
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om middle...=3D0A=3D0Ahttp://public.fotki.com/GindaUP/ca/kpap/wfuph210/side=
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king-hole.html=3D0A=3D0Ahttp://public.fotki.com/GindaUP/ca/kpap/wfuph210/wo=
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g-with-pignose-4.html=3D0A=3D0A... might have some results but I'm not vary=
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eful the tail half made temperature. The draw rings I pulled show some vitr=
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ification and resemble=3DA0 over fired bisque...=3D0A =3D0Ahttp://public.fo=
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m/GindaUP/ca/kpap/wfuph210/working-with-pignose-5.html=3D0A=3D0A I would ha=
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one a percent of absorption test but inadvertently dunked them in the snow =
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to cool them off quickly and now they got damp. I'm gonna see if I can nuke=
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or bake off the moisture and then do the test.=3DA0 =3D0A=3D0A I didn't bo=
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ith written notes until Saturday about 7:30PM when my pyrometers were readi=
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ng about 285=3DB0 in the Bourry box, 245=3DB0 in the front crown, 300 in th=
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il, and maybe 200=3DB0 in the stack. I used BBQ meat thermometers in the Bo=
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ry box and stack for a while until they read about 400=3DB0. At one point I=
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ot the front to 1800=3DB0 and managed to get the front and back within 50=
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at about 1600=3DB0 before closed the damper and I took the long nap. When I=
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oke up both pyrometers were even at 1250=3DB0 so I decided to try relightin=
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like Lee Love mentioned some old coot in Japan does ant fired back up to wh=
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ere I got the front to 1499=3DB0 and the tail to 1500=3DB0. All I was tryin=
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do at this point was get the tail hotter that the front with secondary sto=
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king in the door and the small hole near the tail. I knew I wasn't going to=
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get glaze melt but I found part of my old stoking pattern that worked. =3D=
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=3D0A It's a good thing I made the Pignose adjustable separate from the mai=
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chamber because I need to make the mousehole to the Bourry box twice as hig=
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h, at least 2.5", so I can get more air to the hobs coal pile. I still had =
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a clogging problem. It worked better when I reamed it with a long stick but=
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it was a tight fit. =3D0A=3D0A Along the way I increased the stack height =
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ith some soaps I had left over and covered more of the outer sides with red=
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brick but it got too dangerous climbing on the mud buckets while firing so=
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I left it until I can lag in some more brick using a taller ladder.=3D0A=
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That's about it, the bunches of video I took will need editing and I can ta=
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ke out frames for pictures, I didn't shoot a lot of stills this time.=3D0A=
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Thanks for all the encouragement over these construction and loading years=
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and stay in there eh!=3D0A=3D0AGary Navarre=3D0ANavarre Pottery=3D0ANavarr=
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rises=3D0ANorway, Michigan, USA=3D0Ahttp://www.youtube.com/GindaUP=3D0Ahttp=
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