Carolyn Nygren Curran on wed 19 jan 00
Hi all, Am using grant money just received to broaden scope of my
work...toys in the form of Bailey System 1 extruder with 4" and 9" barrels,
a Bailey slab roller too. Thank you, all those on the archives who gave me
input. (The fact that Bailey is just 2 hours from here and we can avoid
freight charge by picking up the order ourselves was also a factor, plus
fact that young artist son lives in nearby Kerhonksen and we can see him
for lunch with CNC Pottery treating!)
At any rate, a query about mounting the extruder: Being the self taught
type who learns by doing (and a gregarious misanthrope who prefers working
in solitude to boot), Clayart is my best source of info. Extruder will go
in basement studio, and one solution given by Bailey was toggle bolts
through the cement block foundation. I hope to avoid that, since we are
in termite and carpenter ant land, and I don't want to give any little
buggers any easy access to house interior. There is a big I beam running
the width of the house, and a steel post supporting it in middle. Now I
don't want to "bring down the house" with my creative energies, but might
it be feasible to build a wooden square column around the post and attach
the extruder there? I have used a small North Star extruder at a friend's
studio, but this one is going to be heavier duty, and I have no experience
with the "feel" of a bigger extruder and how much strain it will put on its
fastenings. Has anyone bolted 2 by 4's to joists on the ceiling and then
bolted to cement floor to create a freestanding support for an extruder?
Any thoughts on that? Any input from you innovative and creative
clayarters will be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance. CNC where the studio is mighty cold these days...brrr.
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