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12 minutes ago, Pres said:
Hey, I used chalk boards nearly every day. Most of the time I would save everyone's nerves, but on occasion really a quick way to get everyone's attention. If I was really peeved about something, slamming the door was next!
best,
Pres
I didn't say we didn't deserve it
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I like the feel of a really thin bowl, I just hate that they're so easy to break. So for myself in my own house I make really thin rice bowls, because I don't feel bad when one pops in the sink. I don't sell them though. If someone picks up a bowl of mine and the first thing they think is this is too heavy to use, well I don't know, there's no pleasing everyone lol
Way back before I can remember, my teacher was always pushing for thinner in classes. I think that is less function and more art, like most schools are concerned with
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17 minutes ago, Jeryko said:
Hello @neilestrick . Thanks for the reply. That's the issue. There are literally none second hand to be had in Romania. Two posts on the web at this time: 1000L and 850L for $7K and $5K. obviously out of scope. I've been looking every day on all the sales sites for the last five months. Nothing. Closest I can find second hand is in Austria or Germany, and that's a minimum 700 mile drive.
About the brick cutting, haven't figured it out yet but I'll get to it. Baby steps. Concerning the work, well that doesn't frighten me one bit. I love manual labor and buying crap :). Kiln parts count :D. I'm compiling a BOM as we speak. The kiln sans electrics/controller gets me to $400. I'll post everything once I get them all down on paper... well excel I mean. $200 sounds like what i'll be looking at for the control box as far as I can tell so far.
I'm not an electrician, but I think I know enough not to kill myself by a small margin :)).
@Bill Kielb hello Bill. That's a super helpful answer and the video is very educational. Thank you.
The insulation I'm looking at is 3"IFB backed up by 2-3" of ceramic fiber blanket and a 4" ceramic fiber board lid.
I am indeed thinking of SSRs. Two of them with copper heat sinks and a fan to tie it all together. I'm adding a PDF with my rough sketch of the wiring to the post if you have time to take a look. I didn't factor in a contactor but the SSRs in series should take the chance of the system getting stuck on the ON position to next to 0, and lid switches should provide extra safety. If this is not enough I can always change approach.
Wow. PLC. This is a topic I have never touched, even in passing . I just know what the acronym stands for :)).
@liambesaw you're probably right of course. The first instinct tho' is to try to make due with the wiggle room that's there :). An electrician is possible in my future :D.
If you guys are bored, here's a PDF of the wiring. Suggestions welcome, pointers on how not to die, more than welcome :)). No details of the microcontroller GPIO wiring because that feels besides the point at this time.
Have a good one! Mihai
In your wiring diagram, I would switch to a single relay since you're not controlling them independently, unless you have chosen two for a different reason, one less thing to buy and one less thing to fail.
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In that case, I would run new heavier gauge wire to the basement and make the kiln so that the power draw is not the limiting factor. In my mind it would be easier to build an electric kiln capable of cone 10 if you have enough amperage, instead of trying to beat industry on engineering the most energy efficient kiln on the market.
And then in the future if you end up buying a bigger kiln or find something used, you can hook it up without any power issues.
I think everyone here has had to pay that electrician bill or do the work themselves, I don't think there's a home in the world set up to run a decently sized kiln straight from the wall.
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2 hours ago, Jeryko said:
Most of the threads are a couple of yeas old and look quite dead.
That speaks loads
Do you have only 16 amps available for a reason? That seems like a very weird amount. If it's a 16 amp breaker in your breaker panel, you are limited to more like 12 amps of continuous duty. And 2500 watts isn't a lot to work with, less than 2 small space heaters
I don't know how things are in your country, or if there's any sort of home insurance, but another drawback of building your own kiln, is that it won't have any sort of safety certification, and if it happens to burn down the house, you may be hosed.
Anyway, just a lot of fun stuff to consider. LPG is not a very good explosive, maybe build a small raku kiln in the back yard first to "warm" her up to the idea of a bigger one
Google "Ian Gregory flat pack kiln" for a quick and cheap design.
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Looks like way more of a pain than a swing top lid. I took the wire bails off of an old swing top mason jar last night and bent all the parts out of new wire, put it back together and it worked a dandy. I think I'll just bend my own swing top lids! I bend wire all day for my day job, so it only took a minute to bend the swingtop
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8 minutes ago, Babs said:
Dont know how to do the @liambesaw. Just did!!!!
Anyway love your miso jars and the above.
I think it was Min or Pres who do a neat screw on top.....
Another thing to master??
Nice positived in these crazy times.
Screw on top!? Now that would be something
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7 hours ago, Rae Reich said:
More thoughts: lots of pickling and canning going on these days. If you have room to make large vats and crocks, there's a market. I have an old, cast peanut butter crock and it's clear that it was glaze fired upside down on its unglazed rim, leaving glaze on the gallery. Sets could be fired nested upside down.
And growlers for the home brewers.
I spent yesterday making 64 and 128 ounce growlers.
I am modelling them off of old STP brake fluid cans and will be stenciling them as such. Fun little coronavirus project.
My next round will have swingtop lids, but for now they'll be corked.
These are part of a series of videos on markets doing well during coronavirus. Beer, cannabis and coffee are our local industries which have boomed since quarantine started.
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Kilns are very simple machines, so even if your manufacturer is dead and gone, there's very little to a kiln. Easy to get replacement parts and the information is the same across.
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39 minutes ago, oldlady said:
liam, show them the photo you took and ask them to write a cartoon caption on the dog's conversation. they can probably do a lot of them, those dogs are communicating!
I'll do that! Thanks for the idea
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13 hours ago, neilestrick said:
1 and 2 pound vases.
Looks like Easter!
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23 minutes ago, Babs said:
I found teaching annoying kids the best plan is
A . put them very far away from you
B. give them none of your focus unless about to endanger selves or others.
Given a year or two..ha ha, they just get on with it:-))
Or just ask in a disinterested voice..how's this working for you boys?? And listen carefully..
And remember you love them oh so much!
Art lesson in the clay shed?? Daily?
Oh yeah, we are lucky that it was 67 and sunny here today and pretty much the same all week. That has taken some burden off!
As for art lessons in the shed, nooooooo way! This shed is so crammed with greenware and equipment I have a hard time moving around myself.
They HAVE however been getting a lot of use out of sidewalk chalk, markers, paint, melted crayons and all sorts of other creative outlets inside during the day. They've even made a few pinch pots themselves outdoors while doing a "picnic". I love my boys! I just love it more when they go to school and come home tired :p
- Babs, Bill Kielb and Mark C.
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I've got 2 huskies and 2 kids here in quarantine, so I have been taking them on walks just to get a tiny bit of sanity. My kids have reached peak annoying this week, and I've been trying to flatten the curve as much as possible.
But yeah, lots and lots of walks, with and without the kids, but always with the Huskies. Because you know what's worse than bored childrens? Bored huskies! Yikes.
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12 minutes ago, Callie Beller Diesel said:
It snowed yesterday. Not a lot, but it snowed.
Wow! We hit 65 today, but last week it snowed a little here too!
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12 minutes ago, Pres said:
Thanks for the tip, I will be modifying my strategy so as to try not to have the last mess I had, even though the oatmeal was extremely good. Have to also remember to cut back on liquid when adding frozen berries.
best,
Pres
You can put oatmeal in milk or water overnight in the fridge and then just microwave til it's warm. It soaks up the water overnight and works well. Kinda like soaking beans but not as involved
- neilestrick, Rae Reich and Pres
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I've only been laid off a week and I've already pounded through 350lbs of clay. I cleaned and organized my kiln area, got some finished stuff that's been sitting next to the kiln for months boxed up. Finally got a bunch of greenware into the kiln and hopefully fire on Monday. I have a bunch more stuff I want to do between now and then though.
Luckily my clay supply place is doing pickup orders now so I can just place orders and pick them up if I need to! Our governor just locked the state down for another month, so hard times a coming!
I actually worked a full day on Wednesday, they called me in, and supposed to do another full day on Tuesday. My unemployment claim was denied so I'm trying to figure that out as well.
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8 minutes ago, neilestrick said:
Illinois lockdown has been extended to April 30. Tomorrow I get to play teacher as my kids start their e-learning. So far their school has been really good about keeping us informed about everything. Luckily they had a pretty tech-savvy curriculum already. Both kids have Chromebooks and they use Google classroom for a lot of their assignment tracking.
Man you should see what our kindergartner has to do online, it's crazy! They're doing more studying at home now than they ever did in school and it's a full time job for my wife and I, but hey, something to keep us and the kids busy!
Lots of play time in the cul-de-sac, lots of cleaning and organizing, just trying to stay sane here
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Tom kha so yum.
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Since I can bend wire better than I can plan for perfect shrinkage, I'll do it the other way around hah! Plus the premade la parfait lids are way too big for a growler!