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glaze stank

updated sun 6 jun 99

 

William Emley on sat 5 jun 99

Help my glaze stinks. smells like death or perfume.
50 frit 3195
40 frit 3110
10epk
5g. per 5000 g. batch of vgumcer
with up to 10% mason stains or ultrox for tinting.

strangley even though the glazes are all made with the same base, certain
colors have differant smells i.e. an addition of 11% ultrox results in a
perfume smell while 2% delphinium blue mason stain produces a dead cat smell.
These oders come about after the glaze sits in a lidded bucket for no more
than 2 or 3 days up to a week. I first thougt that it may be from some
organic matierial decomposing untill i noticed the differances in smell to
colorant ratio.
Any help would be appreciated.
texas: this place smells like ass
Bill