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March 2016 Blog Posts (2)
thermo readings
Well this is pretty annoying... Just for laughs I compared a brand new K thermocouple with the one in my kiln. The one in the kiln still has lots of metal fused at the junction so i figured that they would be pretty much the same.
SURPRISE! one read 34.6 mv and the other 36.4mv. So I thought i would try a third as a tie breaker... 33.9 mv. The third one was just a wire probe rather than the beefy kiln probes. but it was a K. type
we're talking about a 300 deg F+ spread at…
Added by Robert Coyle on March 12, 2016 at 2:11pm — 8 Comments
'phew, glad that's done.....
So my buddy & I just finished the last of these urns. They are for a certain building over in Fort Collins, Colorado. They ordered 10 of them total. We ended up making 19 total when all was said and done & delivered. We had breakage issues and a few glaze issues that we had to work through. In the beginning I was helping throw sections, but in the end I just helped get the clay wedged and took the torch to the sections and then I fired them & glazed them. Just glad it's all…
ContinueAdded by Jeff Poulter on March 8, 2016 at 10:11am — 2 Comments
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