Martin Howard on sun 30 sep 01
Has anyone on list tried the following:-
1 Make a booth with two Perspex sides and two wooden sides to sit above
your kick-wheel.
2 Design it so that there is an inlet on the right for your hand held
sprayer.
3 On the left is an wooden door, for pots to pass in and out. I pass them
in on old CDs, which helps avoid handling problems.
4 Clean out the old draining channel to become the outlet for the dirty
air.
5 Pass that to the inlet of the compressor, via a box in which most of
the particles can be dropped and collected later.
The advantages seem to be that you save the glaze on the back of the ware
inlet door (3) and that collected in the box (5) on the tube leading to the
compressor inlet. If any particles pass through the box (5) to the
compressor, they are immediately recycled to the sprayer head again.
You save on heating because you do not need to pass all your highly priced
warm air to vent outside the booth.
If any have used a similar system, I would love to know any problems that
arose.
This system was thought out between myself and Malcolm at Pottersmate, who
has invented a larger version which stands on the floor and recycles water,
as well as air and the glaze.
I was just too pushed for space to accommodate his bigger design.
Martin Howard
Webb's Cottage Pottery
Woolpits Road, Great Saling
BRAINTREE, Essex CM7 5DZ
England
martin@webbscottage.co.uk
http://www.webbscottage.co.uk
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