Bob Branch on thu 19 aug 99
Hi ClayArters:
Has anybody tried to fire a pot in a pellet stove?
What is a pellet stove you say? - It is a an automatic feeding wood stove
that uses ground up wood formed into small cylindrical pellets. Mine sits in
the fire place and heats half the house in the winter.
If so please tell us your results.
Bob
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Bob Branch, b-branch@att.net (Fairport, NY, USA)
Home Page: http://b-branch.home.att.net
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Jeremy/Bonnie Hellman on fri 20 aug 99
Bob,
I twice tried firing in a wood burning stove which was being used to heat
the house. Unfortunately I was starting with a warm stove, and my greenware
(even using raku clay) exploded. I had lots of little pieces of clay to
clean out when we emptied the stove of ash.
I tried this at our house in Colorado about 4 years ago when I was very new
at firing my own stuff, and didn't have a kiln. With the perspective of a
lot more experience, I think the stove heats up too quickly to fire
greenware. Perhaps pellet stoves don't heat up as fast as a wood burning
stove burning spruce which is soft and burns fast. However, our stove
doesn't have a huge chamber, so the fire was close to the small pots. Also,
the pots were hand made, and probably didn't have the most even walls.
This was hardly a scientific study, and if I were trying it again, I'd
consider putting the pot in a fired sagger.
Bonnie
Bonnie Hellman, in Pittsburgh, PA
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>From: Bob Branch
>To: CLAYART@LSV.UKY.EDU
>Subject: Firing in a pellet stove.
>Date: Thu, Aug 19, 1999, 12:07 PM
>
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Hi ClayArters:
>
> Has anybody tried to fire a pot in a pellet stove?
>
> What is a pellet stove you say? - It is a an automatic feeding wood stove
> that uses ground up wood formed into small cylindrical pellets. Mine sits in
> the fire place and heats half the house in the winter.
>
> If so please tell us your results.
>
> Bob
> -----------------------
> Bob Branch, b-branch@att.net (Fairport, NY, USA)
> Home Page: http://b-branch.home.att.net
> Computers, Ham Radio (K2YNW), Pipe Organs, Weaver, Potter, and Dreamer
Andrew Buck on fri 20 aug 99
Bob,
I have seen articles on sawdust fired kilns that feed the sawdust into the
firebox in the same manner as most pellet stoves. However, I do not think
that the inside of your pellet stove gets hot enough to even bisque pots.
If it did, I think it would burn out the heat exchanger tubes that the fan
circulates air through. Pellet stoves just are not built like brick lined
wood stoves. If you had a small kiln and an old pellet stove that you
could take apart for the pellet delivery mechanism, it might be a fine
way to fire. You might have to speed up the augur a little to supply
enough pellets to reach high temperatures. It is worth thinking about.
Andy Buck
Raincreek Pottery
Port Orchard, Washington
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Bob Branch wrote:
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Hi ClayArters:
>
> Has anybody tried to fire a pot in a pellet stove?
>
> What is a pellet stove you say? - It is a an automatic feeding wood stove
> that uses ground up wood formed into small cylindrical pellets. Mine sits in
> the fire place and heats half the house in the winter.
>
> If so please tell us your results.
>
> Bob
> -----------------------
> Bob Branch, b-branch@att.net (Fairport, NY, USA)
> Home Page: http://b-branch.home.att.net
> Computers, Ham Radio (K2YNW), Pipe Organs, Weaver, Potter, and Dreamer
>
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