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let me vent-what a lousy week

updated mon 31 may 10

 

eleanorarkowitz on sun 30 may 10


my venting system was no longer pulling air from the kiln. i needed to repl=
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ace the T-joint in my bailey double venting system. jim sent me the replace=
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ment but, of course, it needed some drilling and repositioning. the new par=
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t did not line up exactly with my very old venting system. now that it was =
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done i loaded my kiln for a glaze firing. started the firing at 4pm it was =
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up to 1430=3DC3=3DB8, but when i checked it at11pm everything was off, and =
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an off, the circuit breaker did not blow but the orton controller was blan=
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k.
duh, i went to bed and am wasting time now before i go down to the studio a=
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nd check all connections. i am beat up by all these breakdowns=3D20
and that is what has happened this week
maybe june will be better-hope-hope-hope....
thanks for letting me vent, it is all very frustrating...
eleanor in sunny new hampshire