Lynne Berman on mon 7 dec 98
Dannon,
Thanks for the information but how do you clean the pots without water? I was
busy formulating theories about soluble salts. Glad to know it's so simple as
water but the pots are really dirty when I take them out of the ashes. What if
I wash them, let them dry for a day or so, heat them and then wax?
Lynne Berman
Dannon Rhudy on tue 8 dec 98
If you wash the pots with water, then dry them thoroughly; sit them
in the bisque kiln on low, let them warm in there for a few hours
or overnight, or warm in your oven.
Pots can be cleaned with Johnson's paste wax - it is a cleaner
as well as a wax. Brush all loose particles from the pot, rub
on some wax, rub it off. Pot'll be clean enough to be going on with.
Give a second coat, buff with a cloth or a soft shoe brush, the kind
they use at shoe shine stands. Work great.
Regards,
Dannon
At 09:17 AM 12/7/98 EST, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Dannon,
>Thanks for the information but how do you clean the pots without water? I was
>busy formulating theories about soluble salts. Glad to know it's so simple as
>water but the pots are really dirty when I take them out of the ashes.
What if
>I wash them, let them dry for a day or so, heat them and then wax?
>Lynne Berman
>
Peggy Heer on tue 8 dec 98
Lynne...this works....do it all the time with my pit fired work. Wash them
up...let dry for a day...put in a 150 to 200 oven with the door open for
several hours....then wax when hot....carefully. No white beard/ white
scumb on them yrs later. Sometimes I heat them in the oven and let them sit
for another 24 hours to really make sure they are dry through and through.
Have fun...As Always in Clay Peggy
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What if
>I wash them, let them dry for a day or so, heat them and then wax?
>Lynne Berman
Peggy Heer / Heer Pottery E-Mail p4337@connect.ab.ca
52120 Range Road 223
Sherwood Park, AB. Canada T8C 1A7
Phone (403) 922-6270
http://www.ffa.ucalgary.ca/artists/pheer/
http://www.connect.ab.ca/~p4337/
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