Mudfish
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Kristen
I have done a conversion kiln also. Mine is natural gas though. Have you got yours running efficiently? I read most of the posts concerning your kiln issues. I think enough primary air was the decided solution. Are you still doing single fire? I tried to gather any info from all the responses you were getting to see if I could gleen anything to solve my kiln issues, especially the chimney comments. I have an exterior chimney like you do. I really think that is where I am losing too much heat. Anyway I was just wondering if you got it working properly since you haven't posted Im assuming you are making and baking away!
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I can answer most of these questions...I know that the pipe lines from the meter to the where it changes pipe size is 30 ft, @ 1 and 1/4", from there to the kiln it is 1" line and 60 ft long. 2 venturi burners 7500 btu
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Oh, my. I honestly forgot all about this kiln! I finally gave up on it, and that giving up coincided with a cross-country move, so I ended up passing the kiln on to a friend—and throwing in the towel on pottery altogether. (Actually, I just gave the main part of the kiln to him. The chimney still stands, as far as I know, and the burners are somewhere in my storage unit, buried with all the boxes of various pottery tools and do-dads. I should probably find a home for all these things...) I'm wishing you good luck with your conversion, mudfish!
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oh, this kiln issue of mine is driving me to the brink of towel-throwing, also! I completely understand. Right now, I have about three or four kilnloads of bisqueware waiting on a good reduction glaze fire in my nice, new converted kiln. Yikes. I've accepted the fact that I could possibly be stockpiling quite an arsenal of bisque ware before I finally get a green light on cone 7.
Good luck on your endeavors also, Kristin!
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Thank you Bill for responding to my post. I seem to be having problems submitting pics. Right now I am re-doing the test fire. 1150*f at the moment. I moved the damper down lower to the end of the chute and now the original damper is like a secondary damper. Im hoping this will help retain heat. The original damper was almost halfway up the seven foot chimney so maybe I was losing heat that way. If the kiln still stalls, I will probably be thinking of making burner adjustments. Thanks again and I will keep you posted
