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Bert, I coat my LD boards with NALCO which as I understand it is basically colloidal silica. When these boards arrive from Unifrax, they are soft, flaky and can easily break and chip. I coat them with NALCO and burn them out. The surface becomes like ceramic. If you flick it with your finger it soun...

Hmm....now who would that be.... Can you say 3000 DPH!! FireBoy OBTW.....not the fastest. A prof at my old Alma Mater did a little better http://www.discoverchemistry.com/dcv2-docroot/student/fun_stuff/quick_barbecue/default.html He got to 10,000 degrees in about 1/2 second. The faculty made him tak...

Looking at the Unifrax web site, neither HD or LD board is rigidized as sold by Unifrax. The colloidal alumina Bert speaks of is a better way to go than colloidal silica. You can choose to rigidize or not, it's up to you. According to the Unifrax info sheets, HD boards are LD boards with the additio...

Stainless Steel rings..... Give my son an email

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He makes circles, squares, rectangles and just about any other size you want. He's not fast but he is reliable. Check with others on the board and I believe you will find that they will testify to this.

Phil

Should not be a problem. I would not think that you would need to modify your schedule. You would want to rigidize them again after they are cut so that all faces have been rigidized. Also you obviously need to kilnwash them too. I'd probably use fiberpaper as a buffer between them and the glass ju...

To Brock's point the center above the glass is ideal. For a top loader in particular this is difficult as it will be in the way of loading your glass. Putting in a shorter TC from the side that you can easily manuver around is what will probably be more practical. Run some tests with glass to check ...

Should not be a problem. I would not think that you would need to modify your schedule. You would want to rigidize them again after they are cut so that all faces have been rigidized. Also you obviously need to kilnwash them too. I'd probably use fiberpaper as a buffer between them and the glass jus...

Very cool. Simple but elegant. How were they made? Looks like mica's on black glass with some red fused for the berries.

Phil

Take the board up to at least 1400 for an hour or so and bring it down. That should burn off most of the binders. If the bottom is still brown/black flip it over and repeat the same schedule.

Phil

Show every participant's typical work versus the non typical - i.e. the project. You could make an exhibition out of all of these - a virtual exhibition on the web, or a real one - in life This is a good idea. Lots of us are familiar with each others work but I'm willing to bet not all and without ...

Cut a couple of test strips. Stand them with kiln furniture and try a tack fuse to make sure you have the correct schedule so they just tack and not slump too much.

Phil

. ... mica didn't even fuse to the bottom disk. On the mica's, I believe you need to fuse them first to the surface. Not sure what they are going to do sandwitched between layers before first being fused into the glass. Also, if you layered the mica such that it covers the first layer of glass fair...

Don't stack the shelves. There are very few glass projects that work stacked. The top will heat too much even if there are not top elements and your bottom shelves won't do much of anything at all as the heat differential between top and bottom will be too great. With 4 shelves in there you created ...

Sounds good to me Jackie. For me it looks like a non-irid colorful piece with a completely random design and non-functional shape. I'm in. Actually was thinking in this direction for some time. Got some ideas that involve mica's. Going to have to call Avery on this one and brush up on my notes from ...

Hmmm....maybe I'll have it tatooed on to my forehead backwards so I read it when I look in the mirror.

Phil

At fusing temps the surface of you kiln on the outside can reach between 200F and 300F depending on your schedule and type of insualtion. 18" away however on all sides you are just above room temp. An 8' celing height should be no problem. Just don't use your kiln to store paper on top of (don'...

On the days I go off the anal deep end, I think of many things. One is a story of Navajo weavers (this may or may not be true, but I like it). I was told the women weavers purposely weave a flaw into their work. It's because only gods can make things perfect, not us humans. Yes that is true. And Ja...

Guess I didn't clarify myself that well. I'd already decided what I was going to do - Much what Dick mentioned, I'll finish it out and reevaluate then. It's a small piece so I may be a bit more forgiving on it than a larger one, plus I really think it is pretty small. I strive for perfection on ever...

Just finished up sandblasting a batch of my irid bowls and was looking at one of them when I was taking off the resist and noticed that one of the triangles had a corner lift off just a tiny amount and part of the corner was blasted off. Now when there is some irid left on where I don't want it, tha...

Fire it again. It usually takes a couple of firings to clean it up.

Phil