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$1800 to run 240 service for your kiln sounds outrageous, unless it's a long, long way from the main panel. I had an entire new service brought in, inlcuding new wiring from the pole, a new 200 amp service panel, a 100 amp line to my garage with a 240 outlet for a pottery kiln, AND another 240 line ...

You can add kilnsetter to your kiln. Basically you want the timer part added, where if you go over your estimated time for a firing it will shut it off. You will be basically be adding it on to one of your wires. but do you really think it is necesary.. If one of your relays breaks in the closed po...

Well, my kiln's long out of warranty - naturally - so that's not an issue. But doing the necessary wiring definitely is. Any volunteers?

Paul

Having had a kiln control fail and do major damage to a brand new kiln...over-heated and burned out a couple elements, large amount of glass ran off the shelf and ate deeply into the kilnwashed bottom of the kiln and up the bottom layer of side fire brick....I installed a kiln sitter and use it as ...

the hard way! Lesson #1: When two of the relays in your kiln fail, replace them all. Why: I recently replaced two of the four relays in my Paragon GL24AD kiln. A couple of firings later, yup, another one failed. Two more are now on order. Lesson #2: When you're having relay problems, DON'T USE THE K...

You will probably get some scum inthe pocket from the drilling that you can't get out and the drilled hole will leave a scar as well. The only success I have had drilling a bubble out was to drill it out from the bottom of the piece and re fuse. I had a piece of opaque over clear, so it was easy to...

I made the mistake of using several smaller pieces of wrinkled up copper sheet between two layers of BE glass, and trapped some air. Got two good sized bubbles, one about the size of a quarter, one about the size of a nickel (does that add up to 30 cents worth of bubbles?) My plan is to drill holes ...

Another simple and cheap counterweight idea: get used lead wheel weights from your local tire shop, put them in an empty can that has a handle (such as a clean 1-gal paint can), attach the cable to the handle by making a loop in the end of the cable and securing with a cable clamp (any good hardware...

Slower and longer than I would in a glass kiln, with top elements, but faster than I would in a ceramic kiln that didn't have a vent and / or zone control.

Paul

Yes I did, which certainly helped even out the temperature. I also had zone control, which means there were three thermocouples, each reading a different section of the kiln (top, middle, bottom), and turned specific rows of element on and off to maintain the same temp within 5 degrees throughout th...

OUCH... Thank for the warning, Lynn. I DO balance on the edge... even when I'm standing on a chair, cause otherwise I'd tumble in head first. This week Ihad to load the whole thing myself. I almost barfed trying to do the bottom layer. Still feel as if bruised where I was hanging over the edge. Gla...

to help me in my senior seminar project. I am a high school senior approximately 5-10 minutes south of Portland looking for an individual to be a "community consltant" to help me with the processes of glass working. Contact me for more information. Jeff Hi Jeff, Could you be a little more...

I would like to do a glass curtain of 3x3 tiles on my bathroom window. Does anyone have any suggetions as what to use for connectors. I have tried wire wrapping but would prefer a cleaner look. Thanks Deena http://community.webshots.com/album/62967227AfKlWJ Take a peek at these. I did Charlotte's p...

Crafts Report, Glass, Glass Art, The New Yorker, Craft, Fine Homebuilding, Sports Illustrated (once a year, for the essays), Moto Guzzi News (or whatever it's called), Scientific American (every now and then), Fitness (for the recipes lol), Ornament (whenever it's given away at a show), Muse (kid's...

Brock wrote:There's a magazine published in Holland, or Belgium, monthly, or bi-monthly, called "This Is It". I think.

How's that for a definitive answer.

Anyway, it has good writers and articles about all kinds of glass. Brock

De name Boss, de name!

Glass Craftsman has an black and white insert called "Batch", in every other issue. Since this is a bi-monthly mag, that doesn't add up to too much ink, but it's the best there is right now, IMHO. Would love to see them expand Batch to every issue, and add color - maybe if enough of us ask...

Yes, the SoBig virus (and most of these viruses) uses Microsoft products as a gateway. This one attacks computers that run Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP and doesn't attack computers running Linux, Macintosh, OS/2, UNIX, or Windows 3.x. However, that's just...

I'm a firm believer in using french cleats for this purpose, clear acrylic if the glass is transparent. Check the board archives for details.

Paul

Pat Zmuda wrote:Charlie:


To those of us of a certain age (and for whom Sean Connery is the ONLY James Bond) that's not an obscure movie reference at all.

Pat in Chicago

Amen! And thanks for all the good advice. I think I'll just go buy a metal blade for my chop saw, then I'll have it for future uses.

Paul

I think I know the answer, but I'll ask it anyway. Would I ruin my diamond blade in my tile saw if I used it to cut a strip of thin aluminum? I have to install a new door sweep thing on the bottom of my front door, and need to cut it to length. I can use a hack saw, but thought this would be faster...