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cracking hands

updated wed 17 nov 99

 

Linda Mosley on tue 16 nov 99


I have found aloe vera to be very useful for healing
dry hands, as well as sun/wind burn. The health food
stores sell it, with very few additives. Also, pure
almond oil is very nice. I'm sensitive to lanolin (in
Bag Balm, etc.); found this out when lanolin bearing
lotion made my skin even more dry and cracked! So be
sure to check out what is making your skin dry. And,
once you find a good product, the trick is to use it
often to prevent cracking in the first place. Best
Wishes.
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> Topics of the day:
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> 1. ceramics
> 2. copper wiring
> 3. geek-ese
> 4. HELP - fire in a bowl (Brimstone defined)
> 5. Lithium glazes/Petalite, and a BURNING QUESTION
> 6. Potters stools/back problems
> 7. Yellow Iron Oxide
> 8. fiber in kilns
> 9. current topics
> 10. Burning fluxes and stuff
> 11. yellow ochre question
>
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>
> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 20:25:30 EST
> From: Rosie Barris
> Subject: Re: ceramics
>
> ----------------------------Original
> message----------------------------
> Hi Lisa,
>
> Whenever I've done a sculpture, I've always waited
> until it was leather hard
> then hollowed it out, in doing this, I've haven't
> had one collapse on me. I
> hope this helps.
>
> Rosie
> MBarris711@aol.com
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 20:26:51 EST
> From: Rosie Barris
> Subject: Re: copper wiring
>
> ----------------------------Original
> message----------------------------
> Hi,
>
> I'm toying with an idea of taking a thin strip of
> copper wiring and wrapping
> it around a pot with low fire glaze on it and firing
> it to an 04. Will it
> work? If not, do you have any suggestions on what
> will work?
>
> Rosie
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 20:28:02 EST
> From: Don & Isao Morrill
>
> Subject: Re: geek-ese
>
> ----------------------------Original
> message----------------------------
> At 12:01 11/12/99 EST, Pat Colyar wrote:
> >----------------------------Original
> message----------------------------
> >I have the same response as George Koller to the
> creeping use of
> >computer terminology. Recently, when I had a
> pinched nerve in my neck,
> >my loving, software engineer husband told me to do
> whatever I needed to
> >do to get myself "operational" again!
> >
> > Pat Colyar, in VERY wet Gold Bar,
> WA
> > I would point out that "operational" is one
> of the hundreds of
> words and expressions with military
> histories.......First,the hundreds of
> achronyms related to the Roosevelt years
> then.related to WW2....later to a
> spurious psychological bent. Now we are adjurred to
> adopt a mixture of
> computer language as a part of bureaucratization of
> entire populations.
> simple potters call themselves "Artist/Ceramicists"
> to compound the drive
> to respectability. Don M.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 20:29:01 EST
> From: John Rodgers
> Subject: Re: HELP - fire in a bowl (Brimstone
> defined)
>
> ----------------------------Original
> message----------------------------
> Interesting definition of "Brimstone" but not the
> one I know and grew up with.
>
> Being raised in the Deep South, and as a youth
> facing a traditional southern
> Baptist preacher in the pulpit every Sunday who
> could raise the church roof all
> the way up to God Himself.......I got the message
> loud and clear that "Brimstone
> was the "odious, breathtaking, gagging, sulphurous
> source of the Fires of
> Hell!!!! Thus "Fire and Brimstone"!!
>
> Now in more enlightened times, I think that
> brimstone is actually another name
> for sulfur in a rocklike solid form.
>
> John Rodgers
> Currently back in the Bible Belt - Alabama
>
> NakedClay@aol.com wrote:
>
> > ----------------------------Original
> message----------------------------
> > Hi Everybody!
> >
> > Once again your former PK checking in.
> >
> > Brimstone is the hard gritty stone that one
> shapens knives with. In fiery
> > Biblical times, it was used to sharpen swords, and
> in more peaceful times,
> > plowshares.
> >
> > The term "Fire and Brimstone" is recent, used to
> describe either a pastor who
> > delivers a very "heated" sermon (LOL), or is a
> term derived from Biblical
> > text (probably Revelations), about how the world
> will end.
> >
> > Gee, why does this seem like I'm on a game show on
> TV?
> >
> > Milton NakedClay
> >
> > Enjoying the memories and dialogue.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 20:31:35 EST
> From: John Hesselberth
> Subject: Re: Lithium glazes/Petalite, and a BURNING
> QUESTION
>
> ----------------------------Original
> message----------------------------
> mary simmons wrote:
>
> >This makes sense to me.....smaller particles =
> fewer bonds to break. Fewer
> >bonds to break means more glass, faster.......
>
> Probably not fewer bonds to break--at least not a
> meaningful difference.
> The particle sizes for both 200 and 325 are still
> way above molecular
> sizes. And you don't normally break chemical bonds
> when you physically
> divide. It is probably more of a question of time
> to melt and diffuse
> through the melt--plain old heat, mass transfer and,
> maybe, momentum
> transfer considerations. Of course chemical
> kinetics may be important
> too but ,personally, I'd be very surprised if this
> were limiting. This is
> thick gooey stuff, even at its peak temperature.
> Those molecules and
> ions don't move around and mix with each other very
> quickly. It would be
> interesting to know how far they do move, but I
> would bet it's not more
> than a few molecular diameters unless you soak at
> temperature for a long,
> long time. So you don't get a homogeneous mix at
> the molecular level.
>
> That's why I can put a very thin coat of a clear
> glaze on top of a copper
> containing glaze that leaches badly and cut the
> leaching down by an order
> of magnitude. The two separate glazes largely retain
> their integrity even
> though the one starts out as a very thin coating of
> particles lying on
> top of the other. If I still were a practicing
> chemical engineer I could
> probably make some estimates of how fast these
> things intermingle in the
> melt, but I'm afraid I'll have to leave that to
> someone
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Linda Mosley
lindamosley@yahoo.com
ceramic instructor, St. Louis Community College - FV
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