neilestrick Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 Buy it for the bricks and furniture and build what you want. Build your own power burners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JBaymore Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 Here (mixing "chamber") back part of burner http://community.ceramicartsdaily.org/gallery/image/4907-image/ Landfill. best, .................john Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark C. Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 Those burners are toast-Buy the pile for building something new-You will find from all this that its just the bricks you can really use. Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biglou13 Posted January 29, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 http://community.ceramicartsdaily.org/gallery/image/4908-shelves/ About 1/3 of shelves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark C. Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 The thing about those shelves-is this they look fine as the price is right but for me the downsides are mostly that they have be surpassed in better products When I started in the early 70 making kilns I used silicon carbide shelves as they where top dog back then-5/8th and 3/4 inchers. Then as I made more pots and fired hotter they warped and cracked so I bought thicker ones but they still tend to warp over time. When I started to build kilns I made the decision to stay within the same size shelve so all kilns would use the same size and that size is 12x24 I like everything about this size-I tend not to like the other sizes for many reasons and it looks like you only have a few stacks of these. You decide what shelve to build around as a 1st step in kiln planning.I had at one time huge stackes of 11x 18s but traded them away as I never used them. Now as the story continues they came out in the 80's with the english dry pressed high alumina shelves-I switched over to these ( about 50+) they stayed flater much longer and did not crack only they are even heavier. 33#s for one 1 inch 12x 24. I bought these imports buy the case at 20 each. Shipped in thru Tacoma Wa. They where great until I replaced they all with advancers in the 90's and saved about 1 1/2 to 2 feet of stacking space and my back as they are only 9#s each for you guessed it 12x24's.This space saving alone payed for them within a year at 4o fires a year back then. So I have a huge stack of silicon carbides collecting dust as well as a larger stack of English dry alumina-which I use in my salt kiln as they exceed in that enviroment. So looking at those sheves for me is looking back in time sort of like the Alfred burners-I have so much moved on to better things. As a beginer I think you should fire them until they turn into bananas-meaning that will be the curve they get at cone 10 sooner or later. What thickness are they -hopefully 3/4 or thicker???? Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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