Mike Gordon on thu 1 jun 06
John wrote.....
> The kiln was
> built with header courses of hard firebrick and then 5 stretcher
> courses of
> soft brick and repeated.
John I'm no expert on kiln building, I've only built two, but mixing
hard and soft bricks sounds like a bad idea to me. Mike Gordon
Vince Pitelka on thu 1 jun 06
> John I'm no expert on kiln building, I've only built two, but mixing
> hard and soft bricks sounds like a bad idea to me.
Forgive me for being blunt, Mike, but if you don't specifically know about
this, why would you make such a cautionary suggestion on Clayart? There's
nothing at all wrong with mixing hard and soft bricks in a kiln. It's done
all the time - hardbrick inside and softbrick outside on a salt or soda
kiln, or hardbrick in the high-stress areas of a reduction kiln and
softbrick elsewhere, many other examples.
- Vince
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Mike Gordon on fri 2 jun 06
I don't mind your bluntness at all Vince, I was thinking that he was
using hard brick mixed in with soft in the same wall not as you stated,
one inside of the other. Mike Gordon
On Jun 1, 2006, at 6:13 PM, Vince Pitelka wrote:
>> John I'm no expert on kiln building, I've only built two, but mixing
>> hard and soft bricks sounds like a bad idea to me.
>
> Forgive me for being blunt, Mike, but if you don't specifically know
> about
> this, why would you make such a cautionary suggestion on Clayart?
> There's
> nothing at all wrong with mixing hard and soft bricks in a kiln. It's
> done
> all the time - hardbrick inside and softbrick outside on a salt or soda
> kiln, or hardbrick in the high-stress areas of a reduction kiln and
> softbrick elsewhere, many other examples.
> - Vince
>
> Vince Pitelka
> Appalachian Center for Craft, Tennessee Technological University
> Smithville TN 37166, 615/597-6801 x111
> vpitelka@dtccom.net, wpitelka@tntech.edu
> http://iweb.tntech.edu/wpitelka/
> http://www.tntech.edu/craftcenter/
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lee love on sat 3 jun 06
--- In clayart@yahoogroups.com, Mike Gordon wrote:
>
> I was thinking that he was
> using hard brick mixed in with soft in the same wall not as you
>stated, one inside of the other.
Mine has a hardbrick exterior and a softbrick liner and arch.
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