Malone & Dean McRaine on thu 25 jun 98
I thought zinc always came out lumpy! Of course maybe you don't have 60-80%
humidity like we do. My riff with all my (often lumpy) glaze materials is
the same. Mix the materials and water (thicker than you want) for a few
minutes with a paint mixer and let it sit for a day, a lot of things take a
while to soak up water. Mix again. Screen it with a vibrator-I use an elec
carving knife. Blast the remaining lumps through the screen with a spray
nozzle on a garden hose. Alternatively, when you get close to the end of the
batch going through the screen you can use one of those hand held kitchen
mixers to grind up the remaining lumps and blow your glaze through the screen.
Power Tools Rule!!
Query. Anybody know where I can buy plain screen pieces, NOT prefabbed into
plastic frames, just the metal screen itself? I make my own screens out of
5 gal buckets, much superior to commercial types. FYI-here's how-cut off the
top 8" or so of a 5 gal bucket put the screen on the bottom and run around
the edge with a soldering iron to melt the plastic through the screen. Big
and durable. I want 80, 100, and 120 mesh pieces about 12"x12".
Seattle pottery supply used to have but no more. Anyone? I'd appreciate an
e-mail direct
Thanks, Dean in Kauai where the mangoes are sweet.
Bill Aycock on fri 26 jun 98
Dean- try the yellow pages or Thomas register- look for "silk Screen
Supplies"-- the screens they use now are usually stainless steel. I make
mine the same way, but smaller, for testing. For "for-real" batch sizes, I
use Tyler (Brand) screens, from a Lab supply. I buy buckets that the Tyler
screens fit. Tyler is (was?) one of the worlds largest weavers of metal wire.
I also use cheap (REAL cheap) nylon paint brushes to stir the glazes
through the screen-- Power tools are not always the best- depends on the
size of the operation.
Bill
At 12:09 PM 6/25/98 EDT, you wrote: (*** snipped a little)
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>. Blast the remaining lumps through the screen with a spray
>nozzle on a garden hose. Alternatively, use one of those hand held kitchen
>mixers to grind up the remaining lumps and blow your glaze through the
screen.
>Power Tools Rule!!
FYI-here's how-cut off the
>top 8" or so of a 5 gal bucket put the screen on the bottom and run around
>the edge with a soldering iron to melt the plastic through the screen. Big
>and durable. I want 80, 100, and 120 mesh pieces about 12"x12".
>Seattle pottery supply used to have but no more. Anyone? I'd appreciate an
>e-mail direct
>
>Thanks, Dean in Kauai where the mangoes are sweet.
>
>
Bill Aycock --- Persimmon Hill
Woodville, Alabama, US 35776
(in the N.E. corner of the State)
W4BSG -- Grid EM64vr
baycock@HiWAAY.net
Bonnie Staffel on sat 27 jun 98
Dear Dean,
Tried to get you direct but could not find your e-mail address. June 25, 1998
Hi Malone & Dean,
About your question for screens, I used to get plain stainless steel
screens from a silk screen supply company. When you order, be sure to
aske them to roll the screen, not fold it for shipping. Look up silk
screen supply houses in your Taylor's Reference at the library or Dick
Blick Art Materials which seems to sell art supplies of all kinds. Toll
free # 1-800-828-4548 or for their catalog, PO Box 1267, Galesburg, IL,
61402. I ordered mine years ago when my husband was into silk screening
so had a lot of catalogs available. Good luck.
Bonnie Staffel
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> I thought zinc always came out lumpy! Of course maybe you don't have 60-80%
> humidity like we do. My riff with all my (often lumpy) glaze materials is
> the same. Mix the materials and water (thicker than you want) for a few
> minutes with a paint mixer and let it sit for a day, a lot of things take a
> while to soak up water. Mix again. Screen it with a vibrator-I use an elec
> carving knife. Blast the remaining lumps through the screen with a spray
> nozzle on a garden hose. Alternatively, when you get close to the end of the
> batch going through the screen you can use one of those hand held kitchen
> mixers to grind up the remaining lumps and blow your glaze through the screen.
> Power Tools Rule!!
> Query. Anybody know where I can buy plain screen pieces, NOT prefabbed into
> plastic frames, just the metal screen itself? I make my own screens out of
> 5 gal buckets, much superior to commercial types. FYI-here's how-cut off the
> top 8" or so of a 5 gal bucket put the screen on the bottom and run around
> the edge with a soldering iron to melt the plastic through the screen. Big
> and durable. I want 80, 100, and 120 mesh pieces about 12"x12".
> Seattle pottery supply used to have but no more. Anyone? I'd appreciate an
> e-mail direct
>
> Thanks, Dean in Kauai where the mangoes are sweet.
>
>
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