Mark Tigges on mon 27 feb 06
A little over a year ago I came out of clayart lurkdom to ask if
anyone had any references on constructing an electric kiln. I found
some, thank you.
I've begun finally. Too much time was spent researching and thinking
about it. Vascillating back and forth on dozens of design decisions.
Pestering of kiln builders (thank you) I've now put myself under the
gun a bit to get it built and working before the market season begins.
I've mentioned this impending project more than once in this forum.
When I posted about my home made kiln vent I received welcome
response from the little web page I put up documenting the process.
And it was requested of me to do the same thing with the kiln
project.
So,
http://www.m2crafts.ca/kiln.html
If you have experience building kilns and think I might be making a
mistake, I beg of you send me email. Tell me about it!
mtigges@gmail.com
Regards,
Mark.
Michael Wendt on tue 28 feb 06
Mark,
very nice diary.
suggestion:
cut the bricks outdoors.
get a box fan to assist the
wind blowing all dust across
in front of you and away.
next: element grooves:
since you are using bricks on the flat,
use a carbide router bit in a drill press
to cut the element grooves.
this way all the bricks are stronger
than "t" grooved bricks.
my kilns use gas but were built
the same way except they are
28" inside and use wedges to fill in
the missing gaps from the cuts.
good luck!
regards,
Michael Wendt
Wendt Pottery
2729 Clearwater Ave
Lewiston, Idaho 83501
USA
wendtpot@lewiston.com
www.wendtpottery.com
Mark wrote:
http://www.m2crafts.ca/kiln.html
If you have experience building kilns and think I might
be making a
mistake, I beg of you send me email. Tell me about it!
mtigges@gmail.com
Regards,
Mark.
Mark Tigges on tue 28 feb 06
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 06:33:57AM -0800, Michael Wendt wrote:
> suggestion:
> cut the bricks outdoors.
> get a box fan to assist the
> wind blowing all dust across
> in front of you and away.
> next: element grooves:
> since you are using bricks on the flat,
> use a carbide router bit in a drill press
> to cut the element grooves.
> this way all the bricks are stronger
> than "t" grooved bricks.
> my kilns use gas but were built
> the same way except they are
> 28" inside and use wedges to fill in
> the missing gaps from the cuts.
> good luck!
> regards,
Thanks Michael,
I did cut them outside, thank god. I couldn't imagine having that
dust indoors. The bench that I did it on is under the a patio, there
is fine dust from the cutting on the patio.
I thought about using my router, but the dust scared me. The drill
press is a really good idea. I probably never thought about it
because I don't own one.
I was going to use a 1 inch grinding disk on an old table saw. I
won't mind if this saw stops working. I'm going to tilt the arbor so
the grooves are at an angle.
Mark.
> Mark wrote:
>
> http://www.m2crafts.ca/kiln.html
>
> If you have experience building kilns and think I might
> be making a
> mistake, I beg of you send me email. Tell me about it!
>
> mtigges@gmail.com
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark.
>
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