Judy Frederick on thu 29 jul 99
I was reading this line of thought and suddenly thought ... I wonder if
anyone has tried one of those heat stripping guns for removing paint? I
wonder if it will get hot enough to scrape the glaze off in some fashion? I
have one but have never tried it, since I just now thought of it. What do
all you experienced potters think? If no one has tried it, do you think it
is worth a try?
Another question ... I bought an old kiln from a lady and it is rather
small. The way she handled this problem was to apply a layer of kiln cement
to the bottom of the kiln, (not the shelf thought, thank goodness [only one
shelf]).
The problem is the kiln cement has cracks that are buckling and the bottom of
the kiln is no longer flat. Hence the question, (I am able to take the
bottom out of the kiln) what is the best way to either remove some or all of
this or smooth out the cracks without having the same results later?
I used a grinding disk to remove most of the glaze he had on the shelf that
came with it.
Another question ... should I be using a kiln shelf on the bottom as well?
She put her pieces right on the bottom of the kiln? I guess she did not want
to buy a second shelf, which would have made the first problem nonexistent,
but what's done is done now.
TIA Judy
Earl Brunner on sun 1 aug 99
Well, OK, I'll jump in on this one. When we were remodeling I got to go to the
hardware store and buy toys, I mean tools. On of the toys, I mean tools that I
bought was one of those paint stripper heat guns. I was a little adverse to
using it, It kinda reminded me of a hair dryer. Being, or trying to be the
manly type, I don't like to be seen using a hair dryer. Anyway, I also KNEW tha
it could be used as a great little pot drying accelerator when I was done using
it for paint. I got to move it to the pottery studio sooner than expected. It
did a lousy job on the paint in the bathroom. Dries pots pretty good. Which
brings me to my point. Yes this does have a point. If it can't even remove
paint, which is a very very very low temperature glaze by any stretch of the
imagination, I just don't see how it's going to remove glaze that is fused to a
pottery shelf.
Judy Frederick wrote:
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> I was reading this line of thought and suddenly thought ... I wonder if
> anyone has tried one of those heat stripping guns for removing paint? I
> wonder if it will get hot enough to scrape the glaze off in some fashion? I
> have one but have never tried it, since I just now thought of it. What do
> all you experienced potters think? If no one has tried it, do you think it
> is worth a try?
> Another question ... I bought an old kiln from a lady and it is rather
> small. The way she handled this problem was to apply a layer of kiln cement
> to the bottom of the kiln, (not the shelf thought, thank goodness [only one
> shelf]).
> The problem is the kiln cement has cracks that are buckling and the bottom of
> the kiln is no longer flat. Hence the question, (I am able to take the
> bottom out of the kiln) what is the best way to either remove some or all of
> this or smooth out the cracks without having the same results later?
> I used a grinding disk to remove most of the glaze he had on the shelf that
> came with it.
> Another question ... should I be using a kiln shelf on the bottom as well?
> She put her pieces right on the bottom of the kiln? I guess she did not want
> to buy a second shelf, which would have made the first problem nonexistent,
> but what's done is done now.
> TIA Judy
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Earl Brunner
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mailto:bruec@anv.net
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