Mug Posted November 2, 2015 Report Share Posted November 2, 2015 I have a small electric kiln 18" octagon 24" deep and 400 or so standard 240 paper clay tiles .25" x 1.25" x 3" to 7" long to fire. I will be firing these to cone 6 with no glaze. I was wondering if anyone would have any kiln stacking suggestions. Ideally I would like to keep them flat. I wasnt real sure if I could get away with laying them flat in stacks of 3 per shelf with some wax alumina hydrate to keep them from sticking to each other. Any help would be great, I would really hate to loose a whole kiln load of tile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curt Posted November 2, 2015 Report Share Posted November 2, 2015 Zircon sand ( without the wax) might also work for you If you are stacking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bciskepottery Posted November 3, 2015 Report Share Posted November 3, 2015 You could stack them on the long edge rather than flat, using kiln posts as supports. Standard 240 is a stoneware so there should be no problems with tiles sticking to each other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judy_in_GA Posted November 3, 2015 Report Share Posted November 3, 2015 Check out the suggestions and pics from Chilly's post at http://community.ceramicartsdaily.org/topic/12465-filling-the-kiln-with-tiles/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mug Posted November 3, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2015 I have never fired alot of slab work, unless it was for test samples, the samples were fired flat on the kiln shelf, but space at the time was there. These are on the thin side, the edges are rounded a bit from clean up and will probably not stand on edge well without leaning them or maybe some sort of spacer. I will give this a try and see how it goes Bciskepottery, it's good to hear that they should'nt stick together. I guess the alumina would be overkill. If I stacked them on top of each other, whats the most in a stack that you would go? Chilly's post had some great pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chilly Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 Chilly's post had some great pictures. Those tiles had a slight curve to them from drying, but didn't get any worse in firing. I was really pleased with the end result, even though I fired the kiln twice when I had hoped to get away with just once. I also only fired to ^06. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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