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soot and belching smoke/ reduction firing

updated wed 28 sep 05

 

Marcia Selsor on tue 27 sep 05


Can't help it. There are still today soot marks along the vents on
the ceiling of the auditorium in the L.A. Building where the kilns
were located up to 1980. In 1975 I inherited a kiln room with soot so
heavy it was pitch black in there and on into the pottery room. Soot
is just inefficient burning of fuel.
Marcia
On Sep 27, 2005, at 1:23 PM, Steve Slatin wrote:

> Marcia --
>
> Golly, what a killjoy.
>
> --- Marcia Selsor wrote:
>
>
>> You don't need belching black smoke
>> exuding from every
>> crevice .
>>
>
> Steve Slatin --
>
> Drove downtown in the rain
> 9:30 on a Tuesday night
> Just to check out the
> Late night record shop
>
> __________