HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
This is working well, though... keeping a real consistent and controlled pressure.
Just swappin water periodically.
Just swappin water periodically.
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HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
That was EASILY my most successful stacking/firing yet!
I believe it was due to the newer arrangement of the top shelf, including an internal buffer plate set IN from my exhaust (Inspired by an awesome gas-firing video by Washington Street), as well as the tank submersion.
I am very excited to unload.
Fire “timed in” at JUST under ten hours.. nice and slow.
I was able to grip the reigns tight enough to keep my first 3 hours within quartz-inversion temps.. it was tough to stay that slow.
I believe it was due to the newer arrangement of the top shelf, including an internal buffer plate set IN from my exhaust (Inspired by an awesome gas-firing video by Washington Street), as well as the tank submersion.
I am very excited to unload.
Fire “timed in” at JUST under ten hours.. nice and slow.
I was able to grip the reigns tight enough to keep my first 3 hours within quartz-inversion temps.. it was tough to stay that slow.
penumbra
Imperial Masterpiece
You got the blood..................... sweat and tears and you're all in my friend.
Been raining here for 2 days. Great time to have 2 days of vacation.
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
Pine cones like this? 
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
My Dad brought me this back from their land near Interlachen.. I don’t see many cones like this in ‘sconsin.
TinyArt
Chumono
It's a beauty, but I bet smaller, unopened cones would be easier texture rollers
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
Hehe oh yeah! It was kind of a joke.. those cones are comedically oversized!It's a beauty, but I bet smaller, unopened cones would be easier texture rollers
TinyArt
Chumono
...see what happens when I'm tired?Hehe oh yeah! It was kind of a joke.. those cones are comedically oversized!
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
I been thinking about running a closed loop of 1/4in copper with water or antifreeze, coiled around the bottom of the tank then run near the kiln to pickup heat. May need a pressure relief valve for safety. I think you can design it pumpless, that little bit of heat could be enough to keep it from freezing.
Then again.....
Keeping full tanks with a valve to switch between the 2 is easier.
Pics of the last firing?
Sorce
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
Just submersion helped a TON... I was thinking just USING some Antifreeze in the tote..
Your system sounds good for bigger tanks, though.
Actually.. mostly.. sold everything from that load.. I will send pics of my “not sales floor quality” few
I warped my bottom shelf, too!
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
Which really only affected this piece... it’s a shame.. because besides the “twist-warp” of that one corner, causing it to sit askew and trashing that one straight-line, everything came together really nicely on this one.
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
(Cont.)
This one(pictured somewhere else, actually) is a deeper, textured round that I am quite fond of... however.. I had a stupid pinch-pot explosion... this piece was right next to said stupid pinch-pot.. so a nice big chip got “blasted” off a portion of the best face.. other than that.. it’s straight and sturdy.
This one(pictured somewhere else, actually) is a deeper, textured round that I am quite fond of... however.. I had a stupid pinch-pot explosion... this piece was right next to said stupid pinch-pot.. so a nice big chip got “blasted” off a portion of the best face.. other than that.. it’s straight and sturdy.
TinyArt
Chumono
Gotta cover so curious creatures don't touch & taste it, tho
-- you know that, but I have to fuss over somebody, now & then, just in case 
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
Hmmm... maybe some Everclear HAHA!Gotta cover so curious creatures don't touch & taste it, tho
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
I try to keep “critters OUT of my area.. but you ARE right..
Hmmm.
I’ll just use the tote lids IN-BETWEEN firings.
Thank you, I had not considered that!
Hmmm.
I’ll just use the tote lids IN-BETWEEN firings.
Thank you, I had not considered that!
TinyArt
Chumono
Now even I know that burns REAL nice...
I bought a bottle about 20 years ago, here in Florida, and they were careful to tell me to keep it away from heat
-- made me think of when disposable lighters were new, & my Fla. cousins reported some friend's windshield getting blown out because he'd left one on the dashboard in the sun.(Don't mind me, some mornings I have energy & it burns off as chatter...
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HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
I remember using everclear to make molotovs to throw at cement silos after dark...Now even I know that burns REAL nice...
...nya-ha-ha-ha.. Wisconsin...
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
Leaving home... looking for “wild-as-hell American Locals”... realizing that MOST of them lived where I left!
TinyArt
Chumono
Oh, lordy -- you win!
And you woulda loved my former boss, who grew up on a farm in Illinois -- they made explosive stuff too. How the adults never suspected the blast patterns in the fields, I dunno...