Marcia Selsor on tue 30 mar 99
I once designed a kiln for Mudflats in the early '70s. We had to meet fire
codes for the fire dept., insurance company, and the utility co.
One called for a sheet metal barrier, one called for brick and one called for
something else which after 28 years I can't remember what!
I would think the major consideration in this case would be dampness.
Put your kiln up on bricks but not a solid floor-rather spaced out support -so
to speak. This should allow air to circulate under the kiln. I have heard of
kilns heating up concrete and causing blowouts.
I had a really bad day at the U. The raku fiber liner gave way and I tore it
out and painted the kiln with a half gallon of ITC. (This is after trying to
re-adher it to the brick with Bray patch which was originally done more than
12 years ago.-not bad) Also had to repair a pyrometer which had the wire
melted in two places. Wrote a 5 page kiln firing manual for all our kilns.
Found out the ignition parts for the car kiln will take a week to replace. The
kiln room is in disarray (the place is a GD pig sty) I broke two kilns shelves
because they were leaning against a cart when I moved it when sweeping up the
mess from a broken bag of talc.. AND SO ON! Relaxed teaching a whistle class
at the Mental Health Drop in Center where I relax! Today was a day when I
didn't have classes at the U. I never had a written instruction handout on how
to fire a GD kiln when I was a student. I always figured it was a acquired
knowledge,-tactile learning as my colleague Tana Patterson puts it. (she is a
treasure to work with), Excuse my ranting but students are getting to be a
real piece of work when they have to have written instructions to fire kilns
or the Univ. is liable. Fortunately I know these kilns well enough to describe
the placement of the damper and have drawn lines on it for students to use as
settings. This is turning into the length of a Mel story.
Later,
Marcia
Judy Frederick wrote:
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> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Hi all,
> My electrician was here and he said he thinks the material I asked abo
> just layers of rust from the sheet medal. He said he thinks I could fire the
> kiln without the sheet medal bottom. He thinks all it does is keep the heat
> in some and protect the fire brick. He told me where I could get another one
> made. Is it safe to fire without the sheet medal bottom if I raise the kiln
> up off the floor with brick?? It's a concrete floor and cinder block walls in
> the basement.
> What do you all think? I'm new at all this.
> Thanks for your help in advance. Judy
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Marcia Selsor
selsor@imt.net
http://www.imt.net/~mjbmls
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