mel jacobson on mon 30 apr 12
it is easy to bring the work to the door of a front loader.
BUT, if it fills the door, getting it in there is a bugger.
at the high school we would always load the big pieces with
five kids around the top loader...use cloth straps
like lowering a casket...and slowly drop them in. the odd numbered
kid was the director...usually the kid that made it. we had concrete
blocks around our kilns...to stand on.
in some cases, we just burned up the straps.
i did not encourage huge 3d pieces. they are a bugger, and
they often explode anyway. you all know that kids are always
in a hurry...
it takes about three days to fire them. you cannot stack
them on top the kiln to dry.
however, we did sit them next to the kiln for a month.
people often build kilns around the huge piece...like steve tobin does.
all of his kilns are stacks of bricks and a few weed burners.
up draft. he fires over two weeks.
if you cannot hold the piece in your arms, figure something else out.
mel
from: minnetonka, mn
website: http://www.visi.com/~melpots/
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