Earl Brunner on fri 16 feb 01
Personally I am forever grateful for the invention of my "porcelain
throne". Life without it would really stink!!
Don Hoskisson wrote:
>> From: mel jacobson, melpots@PCLINK.COM
>>
>> yes, industry is making some amazing things of clay.
>>
>> but, do people on the list have stories of other amazing things that
>> are made of clay?
>> please tell us.
>> mel
>
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mel jacobson on fri 16 feb 01
yes, industry is making some amazing things of clay.
a couple of years ago, national geographic did a story on
what is being made.
flexible knives, sharp as can be.
stove top cooking pots.
parts of rockets.
transistors.
(i cannot make any of those in my stoneware kiln.)
but, do people on the list have stories of other amazing things that
are made of clay?
please tell us.
mel
From:
Minnetonka, Minnesota, U.S.A.
web site: http://www.pclink.com/melpots
Dannon Rhudy on fri 16 feb 01
>flexible knives, sharp as can be.
>
>but, do people on the list have stories of other amazing things that
>are made of clay?
Yes, ceramic engines for automobiles. Japan at least has
them, there'll likely be a big struggle to get them into
general use, but they work, and well.
regards
Dannon Rhudy
Louis Katz on fri 16 feb 01
Rocket engine nozzles are produced by the folk potters in Thailand. Of course the
rockets are mad of Bamboo or more recently PVC pipe. The nozzles are thrown.The
rockets are as we say, "way cool"..
Louis
Don Pipes & Mary Van Peursem on fri 16 feb 01
Yeah!
The lining of the socket in my hip replacement is ceramic!
Great things those hip replacements.. little miracles!
Mary Van Peursem
Island Pottery
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From: mel jacobson
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Subject: flameware/industry
> yes, industry is making some amazing things of clay.
> a couple of years ago, national geographic did a story on
> what is being made.
> flexible knives, sharp as can be.
> stove top cooking pots.
> parts of rockets.
> transistors.
> (i cannot make any of those in my stoneware kiln.)
>
> but, do people on the list have stories of other amazing things that
> are made of clay?
> please tell us.
> mel
>
> From:
> Minnetonka, Minnesota, U.S.A.
> web site: http://www.pclink.com/melpots
>
>
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Bill and Sylvia Shirley on fri 16 feb 01
Mel,
I don't know that this is very amazing, but it is a little
unusual. My husband is a chemist, and I've made "heater"
tubes for some of his lab experiments.
I make a cylinder of stoneware clay (about 2" ID and 10"
long) and wrap cord around to impress a nice even spiral up
the outside. Then add a lug to each end and fire it to cone
6. No glaze. Then, he wraps nichrome wire around the tube,
attaches electric stuff, and wraps it in insulation. Then,
he suspends the "sample" in the center of the tube and heats
it to about 1000 Celsius.
He can order commercial porcelain tubes from laboratory
supply houses, but they're expensive, and he likes mine
better because they have the spiral up the side (which
allows evenly spaced nichrome wire), and the lugs to secure
the wire at each end. Also, mine last a lot longer.
Sylvia Shirley
Pittsburg, Kansas
Frank Gaydos on fri 16 feb 01
Mel,
I am in process of having a porcelain cap placed upon my tooth or what's
left of it.
I find most dentists make wonderful sculptures, tooth shaped and fitting
perfectly, but, never to be seen.
(No wonder they have the highest suicide rate)
My dentist is Chinese and named....Doctor Felice Au. :>) True story.
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Subject: flameware/industry
> yes, industry is making some amazing things of clay.
> but, do people on the list have stories of other amazing things that
> are made of clay?
> please tell us.
> mel
>
Don Hoskisson on fri 16 feb 01
>From: mel jacobson, melpots@PCLINK.COM
>
>yes, industry is making some amazing things of clay.
>
>but, do people on the list have stories of other amazing things that
>are made of clay?
>please tell us.
>mel
I wonder how many of us will
respond with , "part of the
auto spark plug?"
DH
Janet Kaiser on sat 17 feb 01
The tips of Exorcet missiles are made of clay.
A type of porcelain to withstand the heat.
It is turned (rather than thrown) upside down.
They are Made in Ireland.
Exported to France for assembly.
Not all uses of clay are honourable.
Janet Kaiser - Personal post is still bouncing
back Mel... melpots2 account appears NBG at the
moment.
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> but, do people on the list have stories of
other amazing things that
> are made of clay?
> please tell us.
> mel
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