Linda Blossom on sat 28 jan 06
NO, a thousand times no!! You CANNOT use ITC on fiber board - it will not
stay.
Linda
NY
With our flattop at over 800 firings (one lid rebuild after the fire dept
hosed the original one down at full temp)the brickss have, on the hot face,
opened up quite a bit. I've been pondering slathering it with ITC mortar
and sticking in a thin (maybe 1/2 inch)fiber boards "lining". Maybe
somethiing like this might work on a salt/soda kiln. If the fiber was
sprayed with 100 it should be fairly impervious.
Just a thought...maybe not workable.
Tom Wirt
Tony Ferguson on sun 29 jan 06
I will add to what Linda has said here: fiber board has a starch like material in it that before it is fired it appears like a board. Once it is fired, so is the starch like material and it turns into a warping piece of #!#$#$. You are wasting your time until they develop a board that holds its shape. Now, that said, I used one for a bottom of an early raku kiln design and it worked fine because it was flat and had weight on it--even so, it became weak and flimsy. The top of the kiln was also board and it lost it shape and basically fell apart after 12 firings.
Tony
Linda Blossom wrote:
NO, a thousand times no!! You CANNOT use ITC on fiber board - it will not
stay.
Linda
NY
With our flattop at over 800 firings (one lid rebuild after the fire dept
hosed the original one down at full temp)the brickss have, on the hot face,
opened up quite a bit. I've been pondering slathering it with ITC mortar
and sticking in a thin (maybe 1/2 inch)fiber boards "lining". Maybe
somethiing like this might work on a salt/soda kiln. If the fiber was
sprayed with 100 it should be fairly impervious.
Just a thought...maybe not workable.
Tom Wirt
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