Wood or oil fired kiln

Has anyone built an oiler or a woody for cone 6? I've got plenty of designs and I plan to get used to oil by starting with a dripping plate system under a little updraft. It'll probably need a woodfire for the first 500 degrees until its hot enough to ignite the oil.
There's plenty of wood where I am, so I want to be able to use either wood or oil but suddenly wondered if it would mean saggars for cone 6 glazes.

Views: 207

▶ Reply to This

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Annika Hinze on January 1, 2014 at 4:55pm

I have not created a specific kiln for cone 6 but rather used our wood-fired Phoenix kiln (normally fired to cone 10) for a raw firing to cone 6. The kiln is ussually fired with soda so even though we did not use soda, everything needed to be wadded as there was enough substances on the kiln walls and props to become volative again during the firing.

Permalink Reply by Jack Boyko on June 5, 2016 at 8:36pm

I have used oil burners because of the high BTU's of oil.. I use an ordinary Oil Burner such as those used in heating systems. Currently I use LP and a small burner from Harbor Freight Tools to preheat up to 600 then I pull it out and insert an oil burner with a 2.50 gph nozzle.. to cone 6

I had a large cat arch kiln at one time with 4 ports for burners,  Started with one at 1 gph to preheat and as temp. rose inserted 2nd, 3rd and 4th with larger and larger nozzles.  It worked great.. and safer than gas as well...

▶ Reply to Discussion

RSS

Videos

  • Add Videos
  • View All

Use These Links to Support Us

Low cost flat lapping disc can be used on you potters wheel if you, drill bat pin holes in it, and provide a trickle of water to cool it. At amazon.com, 120 grit for aggressive material removal. Click the image to purchase 

Members have had great things to say about John Britt's new book, Mid-Range Glazes. Click the image to buy from Amazon.com

Purchase Glazes Cone 6 by Michael Bailey, The Potters Book of Glaze Recipes by Emmanuel Cooper, or Making Marks by Robin Hopper, all available at amazon.com. Mastering Cone 6 Glazes by John Hesselberth & Ron Roy is now out of print.

Harbor Freight is a great place to find unbeatable prices for better HVLP spray guns with stainless steel parts and serviceable economy models, as well as detail guns, all tested by our members for spraying glazes, as well as compressors to power the guns. As yet no one has tested and commented on the remarkably inexpensive air brushes at harbor freight.

The critter siphon gun is a spray alternative that is well liked by some of our members, and is available at amazon.

Amazon is also a competitive source for photo light tents for shooting professional quality pictures of your work. They also have the EZ Cube brand favored by several of our members. You might also want to purchase the book Photographing Arts, Crafts and Collectibles . . .

If you are up to creating videos of your work or techniques you might want to invest in a flip video camera

Following are a few scales useful for potters. Ohaus Triple Pro Mechanical Triple Beam Balance, 2610g x 0.1g, with Tare $169.00

And finally a low cost clone of the OHaus. The Adam Equipment TBB2610T Triple Beam Mechanical Balance With Tare Beam $99.62

ebay is a great alternative for many tools and the equipment used in the ceramics studio - kilns, wheels, extruders, slab rollers are often listed there both new and used.

Tips for Members

If you just want to spout off, it is best accomplished as a blog posting. If you want to get more guidance and ideas from other members, ask a question as a new discussion topic. In the upper right corner of the lists for both types of posting, you will find an "+Add " button. Clicking it will open an editor where you create your posting. 4/16/2014

© 2024   Created by Andrea Wolf.   Powered by

Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Terms of Service