psci_kw on fri 11 jul 03
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric B"
To:
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 8:42 PM
Subject: know of "kits" or instructions for home-built raku kiln?
> i need a raku kiln and am inclined to make my own. i know that i can
> "cowboy" it and use a barrel or whatever and line it with kao wool, but i
don't trust
> my own design knowledge enough to do it yet. does anyone know where i can
> get instructions to build one, hopefully with measurements, materials,
burners
> specified?
>
> i see that i can buy them "off the shelf" for $700-$1000, but i'm hoping
to
> save a few bucks. plus i enjoy the building process.
>
> thanks.
>
> eric
> SpunMud
Eric:
Try going online to http://www.claytimes.com. A few issues back, they had
instructions IIRC on how to convert a "junk" electric kiln into a raku kiln.
Might give you some of the info you need.
Wayne in Key West
Eric B on fri 11 jul 03
i need a raku kiln and am inclined to make my own. i know that i can
"cowboy" it and use a barrel or whatever and line it with kao wool, but i don't trust
my own design knowledge enough to do it yet. does anyone know where i can
get instructions to build one, hopefully with measurements, materials, burners
specified?
i see that i can buy them "off the shelf" for $700-$1000, but i'm hoping to
save a few bucks. plus i enjoy the building process.
thanks.
eric
SpunMud
pdp1@EARTHLINK.NET on fri 11 jul 03
Hi Eric,
I made a dandy some years ago, as I later gave to a little
clay school...
I used expanded metal I got from a steel yard for free of
the scrap bin.
I riveted it into a cylinder...about two-feet of Diameter
and two and a half high...
I made a domed ('birdcage') 'top' of 1/2 cold-rolled Steel
'strap', as converged into a 'ring' into which I placed a
refractory 'chimney' I had thrown on the wheel and fired to
cone 'ten'.
In this I held some 'kao-wool' as cost me anout thirty
Dollars, held to the sides and inner 'top' with nichrome
wire from an old disused Kiln heating element, the 'wire'
passing through refractory 'Buttons' ) as overcoat Buttons
in size) to have their ends twisted on the outside of the
light, expanded metal 'cylinder'.
The base as a riveted legged stand about two-foot-six,
square, made of Angle-Iron and 1-1/2 X 1/8th. inch 'strap'.
The inner lip of the Angle Iron frame held some heavier
expanded metal sheet on which I had fitted Soft Bricks to
fill the field entire.
Two old 'burners' as I do not remember of what make or kind,
as liked the 'Propane' to run on.
I do not think it had cost me near a Hundred Dollars
entire...was handsome, and worked quite well.
One lifted the 'lid' of course...and could do so in a
variety of fail-safe ways...
I used it for a while to smelt Brass and some other
things...then the school needing one, I let them have it.
best!
Phil
lasvegas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric B"
To:
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 5:42 PM
Subject: know of "kits" or instructions for home-built raku
kiln?
> i need a raku kiln and am inclined to make my own. i know
that i can
> "cowboy" it and use a barrel or whatever and line it with
kao wool, but i don't trust
> my own design knowledge enough to do it yet. does anyone
know where i can
> get instructions to build one, hopefully with
measurements, materials, burners
> specified?
>
> i see that i can buy them "off the shelf" for $700-$1000,
but i'm hoping to
> save a few bucks. plus i enjoy the building process.
>
> thanks.
>
> eric
> SpunMud
>
>
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andrew niblett on sat 12 jul 03
hello
you could try the bath potters web site in England very useful info
Andrew niblett fellow pyromaniac
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric B"
To:
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 1:42 AM
Subject: know of "kits" or instructions for home-built raku kiln?
> i need a raku kiln and am inclined to make my own. i know that i can
> "cowboy" it and use a barrel or whatever and line it with kao wool, but i
don't trust
> my own design knowledge enough to do it yet. does anyone know where i can
> get instructions to build one, hopefully with measurements, materials,
burners
> specified?
>
> i see that i can buy them "off the shelf" for $700-$1000, but i'm hoping
to
> save a few bucks. plus i enjoy the building process.
>
> thanks.
>
> eric
> SpunMud
>
>
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Michelle Lowe on sat 12 jul 03
Steven Branfman's book _Raku, A Practical Approach_ has a few designs and MUCH good information, which will make you much more self-trustworthy.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Eric B"
>To:
>Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 1:42 AM
>Subject: know of "kits" or instructions for home-built raku kiln?
>
>
>> i need a raku kiln and am inclined to make my own. i know that i can
>> "cowboy" it and use a barrel or whatever and line it with kao wool, but i
>don't trust
>> my own design knowledge enough to do it yet. does anyone know where i can
>> get instructions to build one, hopefully with measurements, materials,
>burners
>> specified?
>>
>> i see that i can buy them "off the shelf" for $700-$1000, but i'm hoping
>to
>> save a few bucks. plus i enjoy the building process.
>>
>> thanks.
>>
>> eric
>> SpunMud
>>
>>
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Michelle Lowe potter in the Phoenix desert
http://www.desertdragonpottery.com
Mishy@desertdragonpottery.com
mishlowe@amug.org
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