Pam on sun 28 nov 04
Here is another freshman firing question. In an effort to advance my
knowledge base, I am beginning to fire an old manual electric kiln with
sitter. I load and unload the guild's gas reduction kiln, but I do not fire
it yet. I like the idea of messing with the little electric kiln because I
can fill it with my experiments and fire it to suit me. It is very
liberating to have this little 50 year old plus kiln :-)
So, I have fired it a couple of times now, and note that once I warm up and
switch to high on both the knobs, it climbs in temp very fast, 300* c in
just an hour, which I think is way too fast for a ^04 (1060* C) firing.
Does anyone have a recommended firing schedule for ^04 glaze that I can
follow as a starting point?
I also plan to do ^6 experiments, and have the book and software to "master"
that when I get to it, when I get the hang of ^04
thanks mushily
Pam
pam@cresswells.com
Mike Gordon on sun 28 nov 04
Pam,
It depends on the glaze type you are using but I don't see a problem
with your firing schedule. I just turn it all on high and let it go.
But that was with commercial glazes. Mike Gordon
On Nov 28, 2004, at 10:09 AM, Pam wrote:
> So, I have fired it a couple of times now, and note that once I warm
> up and
> switch to high on both the knobs, it climbs in temp very fast, 300* c
> in
> just an hour, which I think is way too fast for a ^04 (1060* C) firing.
> Does anyone have a recommended firing schedule for ^04 glaze that I can
> follow as a starting point?
> Pam
> pam@cresswells.com
>
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Anne Wellings on tue 30 nov 04
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 12:09:25 -0600, Pam wrote:
>Here is another freshman firing question. In an effort to advance my
>knowledge base, I am beginning to fire an old manual electric kiln with
>sitter. I load and unload the guild's gas reduction kiln, but I do not fire
>it yet. I like the idea of messing with the little electric kiln because I
>can fill it with my experiments and fire it to suit me. It is very
>liberating to have this little 50 year old plus kiln :-)
>So, I have fired it a couple of times now, and note that once I warm up and
>switch to high on both the knobs, it climbs in temp very fast, 300* c in
>just an hour, which I think is way too fast for a ^04 (1060* C) firing.
>Does anyone have a recommended firing schedule for ^04 glaze that I can
>follow as a starting point?
>I also plan to do ^6 experiments, and have the book and software
to "master"
>that when I get to it, when I get the hang of ^04
>thanks mushily
>Pam
>pam@cresswells.com
>
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