don hunt on thu 5 dec 02
Hey Jennifer,
My next door mentor (my next door neighbor is a terrific potter, am I a
lucky dog or what) came up with a cool idea for a kiln door for a car
kiln he recently refurbished.
Take 2 inch thick hot face quality fiber and cut 6 inch wide by the
height of the door (or width, I suppose). Stack them so you have a 6
inch thick blanket. Insert a threaded rod about every foot to hold the
strips in place. The beauty is the the shrinkage is along the face
which is now covered by the next piece of fiber. Suppliers for fiber
modules and blankets advertise in CM.
Don Hunt
Jennifer F Boyer on fri 6 dec 02
My current car kiln door is built like this sort of, with a
layer of that dark brown refractory board on the outside. The
layers of fiber and board are held together by those pins with
the porcelain buttons. The pins go through holes in cross pieces
on the door frame.
But the seal against the kiln front isn't very tight(after 14
years of use). The fiber has some undulations that create
spaces(1/4 inch gaps) where the door hits the kiln front. I end
up stacking a column of softbrick to cover the space. I'm
fantasizing about a better denser more stable material for
replacing the fiber on my door. Modules sound good, maybe more
rigid and FLAT...but I know they are expensive. Is it possible
to make your own modules and compress the fiber while joining
layers and gluing them together with ITC ? Maybe that would
create a surface that would stay flat...
I tried making a sort of gasket of fiber(glued to the door that
sticks into the door jam of the kiln to block the space) but it
didn't stay stuck on. I think I was using the cheap soft fiber
and it pulled off. So it's possible I could incorporate a gasket
into the design of the new door, using the pins to hold it on....
Any ideas that help with this haphazard thought progression
would be appreciated....
Jennifer
don hunt wrote:
>
> Hey Jennifer,
>
> My next door mentor (my next door neighbor is a terrific potter, am I a
> lucky dog or what) came up with a cool idea for a kiln door for a car
> kiln he recently refurbished.
> Take 2 inch thick hot face quality fiber and cut 6 inch wide by the
> height of the door (or width, I suppose). Stack them so you have a 6
> inch thick blanket. Insert a threaded rod about every foot to hold the
> strips in place. The beauty is the the shrinkage is along the face
> which is now covered by the next piece of fiber. Suppliers for fiber
> modules and blankets advertise in CM.
>
> Don Hunt
>
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