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[quote="Deborah Harbison"]I am using thin shelf paper I purchased on a huge roll from Delphi a few years ago (I don't think it was any particular brand name) - does not do this in my brick kiln. I used it on the bottom of the kiln itself, I also used a fiber board with hardener on it and o...

you're picking up the pattern of whatever you're firing on, and tiny particles of that (if you're using wash, fiber, or some sort of paper). it's not devit. you can't get the bottom of a fused item to be as shiny as the top.

yes, but it's lost its stiffness. you could wet it with a sugar solution (7up), roll it out flat, and let it dry (or use a slab roller if you have access to a ceramic's shop).

i use wads of it as filler in bottle necks if i'm flattening a bunch for friends.

if the coating is smooth, i just put on a couple layers of new wash. i only remove it if there's divots that i can't work around.

HF is hit or miss. the quality control from item to item, even identical shipments, is off. look through some of the bins of items, and you can pick out the lemons of the group. it wouldn't surprise me that 2 scales wouldn't have near the same accuracy. they do have a good return policy though, so i...

[quote="Jerrwel"]There are some questions this thread raises for me: [list][/list]Why is 220V not a readily available alternative here? For all the money that's being spent on equipment, is an electrical upgrade to 220V in order to maximize the investment possible? I upgraded my primary se...

you can heat it afap. it isn't solid yet, and even if it does crack, do you care? it's going to move inside the tube when it gets soft anyway. since it's packed so well, you will have to hold at the top temp a long time to ensure that the heat reaches the middle. treat it like a 45mm thick casting f...

15amps means you need a 20 amp circuit. 5.5 cfm isn't very much, and whilst it can be used, you're going to have to wait as it recharges. speedair has a very good reputation from long ago, but i don't know what it is in recent times.

no, except the silvering or paint may chip on the edges. use a very fine grit head on your grinder and belts.

[quote="Sashaziv"]Hi there, thanks Don & Bert for the helpful responses, appreciate it! Don, re the cleaning, the acetone seemed to leave a kind of residue, so I gave up on that quick! The ethyl alcohol cleaned better, with less residue, but afterwards there was a fair amount of resist...

with an infinite switch, you can't really tell what the temp is. you can get a thermocouple with a readout so that you can tell, and adjust the switch to change the temps. you'll have to do some anticipating, because when you change the switch, the temp rate won't be affected for some time, so is ex...

put up the announcement on your site on a page, and provide a link to that page in the email.

[quote="Morganica"] Besides, at some point I'm supposed to get new knees, I've been told no stairs for at least two months post-surgery, something disastrous in my stairs-all-over-the-place house. I'd planned to rent an apartment for a couple of months, but if I could use the studio as a m...

not hot enough for long enough.

someone should do the same thing with pumpkins.

different glasses. water clear is more transparent than clear.

[quote="KaCe"]I know of number of people have recommended it. I did say Borax, but meant BonAmi. Sorry. But I believe them to be about the same. I was trying to stay away from the commercial spray cleaners and didn't have any BE cleaner. I wonder if there is some sort of a build up abrasiv...

when i've fired bottles with glass paint on the bottom surface, it's pulled up big chunks of wash, and i have to scrape it off. it does leave a residue that i can't get off.

i built both ron's 24" flat lap and his blasting cabinet. i have the plans and parts list if anyone's interested.

what does it look like, and what is the amperage of each kiln? there are standards for plugs, each can carry a certain amperage and are designed so you can't plug something into a line where it shouldn't be plugged into. if your existing kiln takes a higher amperage than the new one and the line is ...