Nanci Bishof on mon 9 jun 03
In a message dated 6/9/03 9:55:48 PM, potter@PSLN.COM writes:
<< Diatomacious Earth >>
Diatomacious Earth can also be found in the pool departments of home
improvement stores. Its used in pool filters and works great in the garden to control
slugs. Totally organic and non toxic. Great as a flea control too. Those
microscopic skeletons get in their joints and tears them up.
nanci
Lily Krakowski on mon 9 jun 03
First: are you all aware that the original eggstruder is a CHICKEN?
Ok. The tin roof caved in on the little Obaasanogama (snowload cracked
supports) and so I have to rebuild her. She held up amazingly well for
about ten years, aged more gracefully than I, so I owe her.
In Leach's book he mentions making roof brick for an arch out of cones of
clay. These look sort of like ice-cream cones, and I seem to recall are
filled with ash [?] Can one make tubes with the extruder and use them?
Fantasy is to reuse as many arch brick as I can, on the form, then fill in
with such cones? I HAVE made nice firebrick using one of several recipes
(mainly Holden's) and topped the whole with a home made
castable....Obaasanogama has held up well...so that works. Ideas?
ALSO: Any suggestions whether fine or coarse grog better for these impro
bricks?
Lili Krakowski
P.O. Box #1
Constableville, N.Y.
(315) 942-5916/ 397-2389
Be of good courage....
Paul Herman on mon 9 jun 03
Hello Lily,
I'm really glad you are still here with us, and thinking about making
your own bricks. If that doesn't inspire some of the new Potters,
nothing will!
Extruding tubes sounds like a good idea, just make sure they are heavy
enough for good mechanical strength. I believe the cone shaped ones are
particularly good for building domes. If you are building a barrel arch
then you would want them tapered in one direction only, like an arch
brick. For grog, a mix of fine and coarse is best. Commercial firebrick
makers use VERY coarse grog, it looks like 6 or 8 mesh.
If you can find some Diatomacious Earth, it is a wonderful (cheap)
natural refractory insulation, and would work as a filler, better than
ash. I get it at the auto parts store as "Floor Dry" absorbent.
Good Bricks to all,
Paul Herman
Great Basin Pottery
423-725 Scott Road
Doyle, California 96109 US
potter@psln.com
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>From: Lily Krakowski
> First: are you all aware that the original eggstruder is a CHICKEN?
>
> Ok. The tin roof caved in on the little Obaasanogama (snowload cracked
> supports) and so I have to rebuild her. She held up amazingly well for
> about ten years, aged more gracefully than I, so I owe her.
>
> In Leach's book he mentions making roof brick for an arch out of cones of
> clay. These look sort of like ice-cream cones, and I seem to recall are
> filled with ash [?] Can one make tubes with the extruder and use them?
> Fantasy is to reuse as many arch brick as I can, on the form, then fill in
> with such cones? I HAVE made nice firebrick using one of several recipes
> (mainly Holden's) and topped the whole with a home made
> castable....Obaasanogama has held up well...so that works. Ideas?
>
> ALSO: Any suggestions whether fine or coarse grog better for these impro
> bricks?
>
>
>
>
> Lili Krakowski
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