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what harm does leaving the chips do?

if you have a gfi on it that is tripping, then you've mis-wired it and there's a short to ground somewhere. look for an element wire that is touching the metal shell somewhere.

you're confusing volts and amps.if you talk to your electrician like that, he's either going to be confused, or will have to teach you. it pulls amps (consumes electricity). that is what the kiln maker can control (by the element size). it is powered with volts, and the kiln maker doesn't have any c...

they're pulling your leg. fth is failure to heat fast enough. this means there either isn't enough power, or enough elements. adding more insulation to the sides will prevent heat escaping, which may help it heat up faster, but paper won't do anything because once the binder is burned off, there's n...

i use thin braided wire to hang chimes. it lasts far longer in the sun.

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[quote="Jeanne"]@ Bobbie - Per your original post... You said your kiln is 12 years old and you fire it daily - perhaps it's time to bid it adieu. The amount of time, effort and money you've spent/or may spend, to rehabilitate this kiln sounds like a lot, (are you still using the original ...

[quote="S.TImmerman"]Thank you all for the replies, nasty flu got me. Charlie I suspect much of it from our golden retriever who is constantly by my side AND that bucket. They shed like mad. Plus our 17 year old rescue Persian and very deaf, he'd sit in the tray for the saw if I let him. T...

if you're not able to look in the breaker box and answer these questions, then you need an electrician. it would be too dangerous for us to guess what you have.

small things slump or drape slower and take more heat work to look the same as large ones. there's not much weight in the glass at the end of the tips to pull it down. the glass has to be more fluid to move. you have fiber paper under it, which could be holding it up somewhat too, although it's pret...

i don't understand. if the pump is in fresh water all the time, where is the glass dust coming from? do you have the water draining from the hole in the tray back into the bucket, or where does it go? if it is getting into the pump bucket, you might try making a cascade bucket line, and put the pump...

you need to turn your kiln upside down. it looks like it's trying to drape up.

and what are the plugs consist of, and where is that coming from?

[quote="Shelley Lewis"]Dana,
Two layers plus a little frit on top

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well, i guess it does need holes. the bubbles came from trapped air. if you get the glass off, note where the bubbles where, and drill small holes there (and perhaps elsewhere in the swirl).

if it's mechanically held (by the swirls probably or a slight undercut, turn it upside down and suspend from 1" posts on the edges of the mold only. slowly heat up to annealing temp as a top temp, and listen. if it's not fused to the mold, it should drop off sometime before you get to 1000.

[quote="wharrel"]I forgot to state that I had put a 1/32 fiber sheet on top of the SS because I thought the SS was heating up faster than the glass and causing a hotspot where the glass touched the SS. Thanks to all for the help. I will take out the kiln posts and shelves and ramp at 150 u...

[quote="Morganica"]I do much the same thing with plaster of paris. I tend to use a broad spackling knife to flatten mine, but a rolling pin is a cool idea.[/quote]

i use a wine bottle with the neck cut off. no handles on the ends to run into the kiln walls.

i doubt it. most glues are organic, and organics can't usually last that high. there may be some hi-temp epoxies; for instance, you can use some epoxies on car headers, which probably reach 800-900F or so.

[quote="Cheryl Maahs"][quote="Andrea R"][quote="Cheryl Maahs"]I use WD40 to remove the "residue", then nail polish remover[/quote] Seems like a lot of work to get a label off :shock:[/quote] Maybe ... But ... WD40 is fish oil and behaves like Goo Gone and the ...