Howard Scoggins on wed 7 mar 01
I had a cone melt on the sitter prongs once. My
uncle, an old boiler -- maker of forty years
experience, showed me a trick that i use on a number
of "hot" problems nowadays.
Paint the prongs with milk of magnesia. I now paint
all the bolts on an engine rebuild the same way.
Works great on VW air cooled engines, too. The dry
residue stops the "welding" tendency of hot metals
to anything they touch.
Works for me (:-].
Howard Scoggins
Steve Mills on fri 9 mar 01
If I have cone melt on the sitter prongs I heat 'em up red hot with a
little blow torch and then dunk them in cold water; cleans them up a
treat!
Steve
Bath
UK
In message , Howard Scoggins writes
>I had a cone melt on the sitter prongs once. My
>uncle, an old boiler -- maker of forty years
>experience, showed me a trick that i use on a number
>of "hot" problems nowadays.
>
>Paint the prongs with milk of magnesia. I now paint
>all the bolts on an engine rebuild the same way.
>Works great on VW air cooled engines, too. The dry
>residue stops the "welding" tendency of hot metals
>to anything they touch.
>
>Works for me (:-].
>
>Howard Scoggins
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Steve Mills
Bath
UK
Lili Krakowski on mon 25 jun 07
I now have read the messages several times over and am confused and puzzled.
Arnold is the only one who addressed what I wonder about.
Your kiln, with a bar in the sitter fired perfectly to c.06.
Later the same kiln, with a bar in the sitter that should give you c.6
failed to do so.
If I read you correctly the tripper did not trip. So what did you do? Turn
it off by hand? And if so why? Does it normally go to c. 6 in x hours and
this time it had not tripped at x hour plus y?
Today we hit close to 90oF and I am sure and certain there is a voltage
drop. So if your kiln was fired at an hour (milking time) or in weather
(extreme heat) or after an outage nearby that lead to the utility sending
you less electricity that normal, of course the poor kiln would take longer
to fire. When we spent the winters at our Farm I had to fire between 7 am
and 3 pm. Otherwise voltage drops from not only milking machines (constant
all year round) but electric heaters and lights.
I strongly believe that no matter what one should indulge oneself in a
minute of total mindless Perils of Pauline style panic. THEN one checks
the thing out. I would call my utility, I would ask my electrician. I am
convinced countless ones of us start tearing the kiln apart when a drunk hit
a lightpole down the street, and electricity was diverted, or whatever.
There is a gismo, I do not have one, do not know how it works, but know it
exists, that allows one to check the voltage into the kiln. You may have a
friend who knows how to do this. Otherwise get the electrician. By the
way, I am told that some utilities will do the checking for you.....
Lili Krakowski
Be of good courage
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