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Pre-Fire Soft Shelf fron Jen-Ken?
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 11:29 am
by Alecia Helton
I ordered a soft shelf with my new Jen-Ken. There's absolutely no mention of it in the materials that came with the kiln. Do I need to pre fire it before I use it?
In one of my previous corporate incarnations I wrote owners manuals. I'm really amazed by what's omitted from kiln manuals and how many times I have to read what is there to understand it. Or is it just me?
Alecia
Re: Pre-Fire Soft Shelf fron Jen-Ken?
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 9:01 pm
by dee
Alecia Helton wrote:I ordered a soft shelf with my new Jen-Ken. There's absolutely no mention of it in the materials that came with the kiln. Do I need to pre fire it before I use it?
In one of my previous corporate incarnations I wrote owners manuals. I'm really amazed by what's omitted from kiln manuals and how many times I have to read what is there to understand it. Or is it just me?
Alecia
LOL having been thru the taurus 3 user manual and had a discussion with their engr who wrote the manual about what was missing - one of my previous lives involved being a tech writer and doing the odd sw manual here and there - the kiln manuals are about average - but then any time i've tried to look up something in a microgreedy manual i get entirely frustrated also ;P
i have 2 jen kens - what do you mean by a soft shelf? all the shelves i've gotten from jen ken are mullite shelves... those don't need to be prefired and i didn't prefire the kilns either, just kilnwashed my first shelf, put some glass on it and started working out my firing schedule for that particular item.....
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Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 10:05 am
by Alecia Helton
Dee,
I bought and Oval 13 with 2 half shelves of mullite, each 20" long. Because of weight, if you want a full shelf, they sell you a shelf made of a softer material. It was not labeled as to what it was made of. It has more substance than fiber paper I've seen and is more porous than fiber board.
I guess I need to check with the factory.
Alecia
Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 2:18 pm
by dee
Alecia Helton wrote:Dee,
I bought and Oval 13 with 2 half shelves of mullite, each 20" long. Because of weight, if you want a full shelf, they sell you a shelf made of a softer material. It was not labeled as to what it was made of. It has more substance than fiber paper I've seen and is more porous than fiber board.
I guess I need to check with the factory.
Alecia
yup, check with jen ken and see what that shelf is made out of and what they recommend as far as prefiring....
D