Kiln Update 10-14-2021

Thank you to @michelle for noticing and reporting that some of her glazes weren’t turning out quite right in the last couple firings. I ran a pair of cone tests and the kiln is not reaching full temperature.

Witness cones from left to right are Cone 4, 5, and 6. Our glaze fires, and these tests, go to Cone 5.

The middle cone in the second test closer to the camera is just about perfect. The second test was done with a 15 minute hold added to the firing program. This was successful previously providing us with quite a few more firings on the old elements in the kiln before replacing them.

I’ll price and work together with the finance committee to schedule replacing the elements in the next several weeks.

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Thanks Patrick for doing a cone check. Hopefully we can get the elements replaced soon.

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