claybair on fri 28 dec 01
Lela,
You inspired me to attack one of my shelves that had too many layers of too
thick kiln wash.
After trying various tools putty knife, wire brush, various blades I grabbed
my handy dandy
metal kitchen scraper/chopper. I use this thing to clean off my wedging
surface all the time.
It did a great job in 1/4 of the time. I have an oval trash can that is a
tad smaller than my
round shelf. I placed the shelf into the trash can and supported the top of
the shelf on a piece of foam on my wedging board. Slapped on my mask and
scraped away! The edge of this scraper is beveled... You can find these
scrapers in any kitchen shop. The blade is 4-5" wide. It didn't dig into the
shelf at all as I have with a putty knife. Most of the pieces coming off
were relatively large so there wasn't a lot of dust. Clean up was fairly
easy.
How far away is retirement??? Would your husband be upset if the 37" Buick
were back outside? You could cover it or get one of those portable car ports
from Costco. You would then have room to set up your studio.
Gayle Bair
Bainbridge Island, WA
http://claybair.com
Lela wrote>>
Gayle,Marsha,Chris, Yes, Gayle is right, I do need my own studio. Have
wheel, and a strange little old kiln I only risk to cone 04, so I can bisque
at home. Space is a problem. As it is, a person has to make like an
acrobatic monkey to get to it in the single car garage, climbing around
burnt out 37 buick shell(spouce`s future retirement project, found in field
with bushes growing through it.) and asundry tee-pee, mountainman camping
stuff. But that`s a different story.
Guild members are good at cleaning everything but kiln shelves . It does
seem to me that at 65$ an hour it would be worth it to get about 20 half
shelves sandblasted, unless the procedure takes longer than I think. We
don`t have an appropriate grinder, just muscle run carborundum stone .
Guess I`ll make do, bring it up again at next meeting, scrape the ones I`ll
need, and water down the kiln wash.A couple of us are going to organize an
in-house kiln care wokshop, but usually the ones who need to aren`t the ones
that attend. I could even buy my own shelves, but they`re too heavy to cart
around. It`s almost a new year. Who knows
what might happen? Thanks for the responce . Lela
lela martens on fri 28 dec 01
Gayle,Marsha,Chris, Yes, Gayle is right, I do need my own studio. Have wheel, and a strange little old kiln I only risk to cone 04, so I can bisque at home. Space is a problem. As it is, a person has to make like an acrobatic monkey to get to it in the single car garage, climbing around burnt out 37 buick shell(spouce`s future retirement project, found in field with bushes growing through it.) and asundry tee-pee, mountainman camping stuff. But that`s a different story.
Guild members are good at cleaning everything but kiln shelves . It does seem to me that at 65$ an hour it would be worth it to get about 20 half shelves sandblasted, unless the procedure takes longer than I think. We don`t have an appropriate grinder, just muscle run carborundum stone . Guess I`ll make do, bring it up again at next meeting, scrape the ones I`ll need, and water down the kiln wash.A couple of us are going to organize an in-house kiln care wokshop, but usually the ones who need to aren`t the ones that attend. I could even buy my own shelves, but they`re too heavy to cart around. It`s almost a new year. Who knows
what might happen? Thanks for the responce . Lela
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