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Proviso before moving in that it is cleaned for you? Renting or leasing? Any industrial cleaning service who would have all thr haz gear required for suvh a clean? Fire hose , ppds and a floor drain with a clay trap? If you clean you would have to have a way of disposing the sludge, clay water etc. If totally suitable, cheap, proximity etc may be worth it .

Posibly thought " topless potters."....

Lee, some fixers have to be fired, I guess the poster is wanting to mend ceramic without having to fire the piece. Would be hard to refire anyway if firing temp of glaze on original is an unknown.. 'Refurbishing lawn art' aka patching up old garden ornaments????

Lot of that artist's work is unglazed. The clay body is doing a lot for the look. Not drawn to picking ip those pots for functional ware.

Images would help folk give you the advice you need.

Could get movement by adding flux to the underglaze and fluid glaze

They are available all over. Dr google thermal heated jackets, rechargeable, up to 10hrs,can get sleeveless ones or full jackets. Some washable. I wear homespun and knitted sweaters with sleeves to elbows, snug as a bug, but Mediterranean climate here so no sub zero days

Not what I do but a quick thought, those Thermal jackets which have heating coils in them, crock pot of warm water for throwing. Insulated mats to stand on. Found if my head, neck back are warm I can withstand a lot. Old days, gas kiln working away in corner, bliss. Nothing like a bitta wedging to warm the body..... But, needs serious responses as stopping work for months not good.

Not sure where you are but your shelf is disintegrating. Mine did that would " blister" and crack then being brittle sloughs off, flipping them the crumbs flake off onto your glazed pots. Think it's an age thing. Occurred on bottom surface of shelves in my case. Not a flipper. shiny surface, maybe a build up of deposit from many years of glaze firing.

I think there was a post on that relatively recently. Try the wild clay posts at beginning of this forum. Maybe search " temper" in this forum too.

+1 for crack there before firing but exacerbated by the firing. How are you drying your pieces? At what stage of drying are you carving?. Are you applying moisture to smooth after carving at a dry phase? Definitrly apply sthing to shelves to let these pieces glide as shrink in firing and when drying

Not sure what you have but when you go to resize your image anyway , prior to trying to attach or even opening email stuff (not going to embed in message, ) options on size should appear . Choose the one which is less than original, usually mentions suitable for emails. Save as email image or sthing. And select this to attach to your post here. At1/2"" thick you won't get warping if use about 8 coils radiating out from middle.

Large flat pieces fire more safely in middle of kiln. Some people make a series of rolled coils then place them like spokes of a bike wheel under the pot. Let's air circulate under plate and so heats ad cools more evenly.

Hi, all of the above, and do you have cones or a pyrometer you are checking? That is a very fast schedule. Where are your large flat pieces placed? How tight is your kiln packed? Some folk place large flat pieces vertically. Photos would help a lot.

And some, try getting it off without wrecking screen! Remembering green coloured stuff from way back, needed a large trough to soak it off. Thinking now, prob be a solvent to get the goo off. But as you write , way to go with complex stencil

Is your wheelhead sitting level in its new position?

Yes , and can use same screen for other images

After you wedge upur clay and either make it into balls or shape for throwing off the hump, try rolling the ball on wheel so the bottom cones a bit then press it down . Try throwing and opening a piece without the coning process to isolate whether that process is the culprit.

Think Hulk hit my method/ fix. I find when I know I wont get to clay I look at magx and ocasionally instagram. But when I get to shed I mosey about putting stuff back or checking if clay is ready to recycle I get back into losing the "other" life and get sorted. Too much external vIsuals knock me off the path.

Thanks Min, appreciate your time given.

Thanks Min, think you gave me a couple, one like chewing gum chunks , Chicklets or chiplets??and another with bigger

I have lost the recipe for a crawl glaze I used for some exhibition pieces. From memory Min gave a couple of recipes. I want biggish chunks

You may have to become nocturnal.

Sounds like you need to make a damp box. Plastic lidded tub with couple of inches of plaster in the bottom damped plaster and store your pots awaitIng handles or slip.

Wierd kiln with sitter at the bottom which ina top loader can run cooler. And overkill length of pyrometer, looks like that has come from a large gas kiln set up. If all else doesnt slow it down, nothing stopping you leaving the lid propped open and shutting it gradually, I noiced you biswuing to just over 900, or are you going on cones in sitter and at spyhole? Do you plug those bung holes after a time? How full do you stack your kiln?