Lesley Hildreth on thu 6 may 99
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Here is a glaze that someone gave me=3B I really like the texture (matt) =26=
the
colour, but it settles like a rock. What can I add to it?
Heavenly Turquoise 5/6
Strontium carbonate 10.3=25
Whiting 3.4
Nepheline syenite 61.7
Ball clay/KT1-4 6.4
Silica 7.3
Copper carbonate 3.2
Lithium carbonate 3.2
Thanks in anticipation -
Lesley
Virginia beach
Ilene Mahler on fri 7 may 99
either downy ( the fabric softner) or epsom salts 1 cup to 5000
grams....Ilene in Conn
At 12:23 PM 5/6/99 EDT, you wrote:
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>Here is a glaze that someone gave me; I really like the texture (matt) & the
>colour, but it settles like a rock. What can I add to it?
>
>Heavenly Turquoise 5/6
>Strontium carbonate 10.3%
>Whiting 3.4
>Nepheline syenite 61.7
>Ball clay/KT1-4 6.4
>Silica 7.3
>Copper carbonate 3.2
>Lithium carbonate 3.2
>
>Thanks in anticipation -
>Lesley
>Virginia beach
>
>
Paul Lewing on fri 7 may 99
Lesley,
I'm not surprised this settles so bad with that much Neph Sy. It's
notorious for that. It is possible you could recalculate this glaze
using a feldspar and taking out some of the silica, but the first thing
I'd try would be adding some bentonite. Try 2% added to the dry
ingredients before you put it into the water. Hope this helps.
Paul Lewing, Seattle
claypots on sat 8 may 99
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I've used 2=25 Epsom Salts to a C. 6 glaze that I have that settles badly. =
I
tried other measures but the epsom salts worked best.
Debra
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