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help! glaze explosion

updated sat 31 may 97

 

Margaret Arial on tue 13 may 97

Hi,
From my experiences with kilns i've seen over the years you need to get the
glaze all off when there is a good quantity of it as it eats thru the brick
on each subsequent firing and does more damage.Replacing deeply damaged
brick may be the best alternative to prevent further damage.
I would be interested to hear if someone has a magic cure as so many schools
where i did artist in the schools residencys had some degree of this problem
and one school had the entire bottom eaten out from an overfiring where glaze
got into the tube of the sitter assembly and stopped it from automatically
cutting off.
Margaret in S.C.