Sam or Mary Yancy on thu 5 feb 04
Please be careful. In my early years I worked as a metal heat treater for about 3 years. When unloading the furnaces (with about 1500-2000 lbs of red/white hot steel (about 1875 degrees) that I had to quench the load in hot oil - I wore asbostos jackets and a asbostos aprons with an asbostos hood with triple thicknessss glass(?) heat shields. Lots of fire/flame and a great show for any on-lookers. My boss used to invite many people to see the show. I would have to let him know or he would ask me when I would "quench"a loa (about every two days). Since I was very tall - used to burm off about 6 inches from the bottoms of my pants after several washings (asbostos apron did not reach that far). Perhaps all that asbostos covering, smoke and flames is one of the reasons that I have copd breathing problems now - and got hazadous pay (20 cents more a hour) then. Again - please be careful with the hot stuff. Burns are very-very-very painfull and some don't go away. Sam In Daly City.
Raku pants. Forgot to mention an observation based on hundreds of
student raku firings.
Clayart is great for sharing our experiences. In the "old days" we had
to learn by doing without any benefit of group experiences to help us
learn how to be safe.
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