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bad time on ^6

updated wed 30 sep 09

 

Linda Mccaleb on tue 29 sep 09


=3DA0 I have a couple of kilns, and the small one is a Paragon. I have been=
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ireing it low, ^018 for china paints. When I put a few things in it,( it ha=
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s a cone sitter) I fired it to cone 6 and I put it in at 7:00 at night expe=
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cting it to shut off on it's own. Well when I got up at 6:00, it was still =
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on. The cone sitter was bent slightly and my stand up cone bent to about be=
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tween 9 and 10:00 positions. It fired fine and bent to the right angle the =
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last time I fired at cone 6 about 4 weeks ago. Why did it not fire right? C=
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ould it be that the elements went bad in that short amount of time fireing =
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at only cone 018? I don't have a lot of money right now, and I do have a la=
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rger kiln, but it is nice to be able to fire a few things in the small kiln=
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. This time it was a special order for a berry bowl with a saucer and I did=
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n't want to fire up the big kiln for that. I hope it is some small electric=
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al thing that myself or my husband can fix.=3D0A=3DA0 Thank you for your ti=
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=3D0A=3DA0 Linda=3D0A=3D0A=3D0A