flowerdry Posted April 21, 2015 Report Share Posted April 21, 2015 Just read the short article "adjusting glazes" by Pete Pinnell which someone recently was kind enough to provide a link. WOW! I can finally picture flocculation which previously was totally counterintuitive to me. A while back, I think it was on this forum when someone with a background in wastewater treatment gave the tip to add a flocculant to your throwing water so the water would clarify, inessence so the clay would separate out. Now that made total sense to me. Everybody else, of course was crying "foul!". Flocculation prevents settling!!!! It almost came to blows and eventually the opponents agreed to disagree. OK, so now I can picture the little flocs of clay particles joining forces and in their strength in numbers, holding up the floating boulders the size of six story buildings...the non-clay portion of the glazes. And it's easy to see that flocculation for waste water treatment makes sense because there are no boulders, just a lot of organic material that flocs together, gets heavy, and separates out. But that was always easy for me to see. Definately a journey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JBaymore Posted April 21, 2015 Report Share Posted April 21, 2015 Next, research Pete's "Hinky Dinky" principle. best, .....................john Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flowerdry Posted April 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2015 Working on it, John, but not there yet. I do now know however that Hinky Dinky is a chain grocery store, and that if I were earlier in my clay career I'd be looking to move to Nebraska. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Campbell Posted April 22, 2015 Report Share Posted April 22, 2015 Pete Pinnell is definitely a potter who thinks about everything and can communicate his ideas very well. If he is ever running a workshop you can get to ... GO! Your brain will definitely need to rest afterwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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