Lynne at The Pottery Web on tue 16 may 00
At 12:05 PM 05/16/2000 -0700, you wrote:
When I researched gas kilns, I was told by several people that Olympic made
good electric kilns, but that their gas kilns were not satisfactory. In
addition, I took classes at a community center which purchased an Olympic
gas kiln during the time I was there. It did not hold up to firings
approximately once a week. The door had to be replaced before the kiln
was a year old, the ceiling fell in shortly thereafter, and there were
other similar problems, requiring frequent repairs.
We ended up getting a potter here in Atlanta to help us build a gas
kiln. It is much larger than anything we could have afforded to buy
manufactured and cost a lot less.
Lynne in Atlanta, desperately needing rain...
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dilek tuncman on tue 16 may 00
hi to everyone..
i am thinking of buying a gas kiln. this is gonna be my first.
and i found one, it's 7 cubic ft olympic gas (natural gas) kiln . i remember
that somebody told me olympic electric kiln wasn't good. so i am wandering
if olympic gas kilns have problems too?
thank you
dilek
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Anthony Allison on wed 17 may 00
Dear Dilek,
I saw the post about the olympic kiln by lynn, where she felt it was not
satisfactory. I have had a round 27 inch kiln for a couple years now and it
is used about twice a month. I am quite happy with the kiln, and it gives
great results and good consistancy. The kiln lid has a few cracks in it but
i know this is due to the instances where i need to crash cool to get the
stuff out for a show. It may not hold up in a school environment where
student abuse is high but it sure seems to be doing well in my studio. I get
better looking pots from my olympus than i do from my large kiln. Reduction
is really great and easy to achieve.
Hope this helps,
Tony
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From: dilek tuncman
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Date: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 5:09 PM
Subject: olympic gas kiln question..
>hi to everyone..
>i am thinking of buying a gas kiln. this is gonna be my first.
>and i found one, it's 7 cubic ft olympic gas (natural gas) kiln . i
remember
>that somebody told me olympic electric kiln wasn't good. so i am wandering
>if olympic gas kilns have problems too?
>thank you
>dilek
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