mel jacobson on mon 17 oct 11
this is an old trick:
find the crack or blemish...heat the spot with a
bernzomatic torch...pull both sides out with a
needle nose plier...about three inches.
let it cool. take sandpaper/emery and polish the ends.
grab both ends in the pliers and heat til red/then twist
them together. bingo, it should be just fine.
fire normally.
mel
from: minnetonka, mn
website: http://www.visi.com/~melpots/
clayart link: http://www.visi.com/~melpots/clayart.html
jonathan byler on mon 17 oct 11
thanks mel.
looks like more than a crack, there is about an inch of element
missing! probably had a pot with glaze touching it. and it eventually
ate through the element. hoping this works.
-jon
On Oct 17, 2011, at 2:35 PM, mel jacobson wrote:
> this is an old trick:
>
> find the crack or blemish...heat the spot with a
> bernzomatic torch...pull both sides out with a
> needle nose plier...about three inches.
>
> let it cool. take sandpaper/emery and polish the ends.
> grab both ends in the pliers and heat til red/then twist
> them together. bingo, it should be just fine.
> fire normally.
> mel
>
>
>
> from: minnetonka, mn
> website: http://www.visi.com/~melpots/
> clayart link: http://www.visi.com/~melpots/clayart.html
Stephani Stephenson on mon 17 oct 11
at one of the school studios, the elements on some of the electric kilns=
=3D
were pretty ragged. use to do the heat and wrap technique, but sometimes=
=3D
I
didn't have heat.
I also picked up on a technique the outgoing tech used for emergency
patches. Put a little , tiny bit of paste ,made up of borax and water,
where the two elements come in contact. the idea was that the dab, i me=
=3D
an
tiny, tiny dab of flux would ensure a wee bit more than a mechanical bon=
=3D
d
between the broken ends or segments where the coils met. if you had a
segment missing, use another section of coil, (that you saved up from pri=
=3D
or
element changes) , warm everything up, get that coil coiled in sync with=
=3D
the broken segments and put a dab where they touch.
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