Marcia Selsor on tue 28 mar 00
Maybe you should look for used salted bricks. There was an old kiln in
our town at a brick factory that was lined with salted bricks. I think
you need a brick kiln (for making bricks) to do this. Bricks are a lot
of mass. How many are you talking about here?
Marcia
Mason Batchelder wrote:
>
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Just a question comes to mind....How did you back into this particular
> project??
> ARE YOU A GLUTTON FOR PUNISHMENT?
> CONTACT LOCAL BRICKWORK OR THE ARCHITECT WHO SPECIFIES THE BRICK AND GET HIS
> SAMPLES AND RECIPES IF AT ALL POSSIBLE.
> See a shrink to understand why you are willing to undertake this at all. lol
>
> In a message dated 3/25/00 8:36:07 PM Pacific Standard Time, tmck5@juno.com
> writes:
>
> << ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I gave up last week on a project that I have been trying to get my mind
> around. I need to salt glaze about a 1000 bricks to match our city
> building.
> 1st problem - (Ihave little to no experiance with salt fire) I'm thinking
> of purchase some local paver brick and testing them to see if I get the
> right effect.
> 2 nd problem money resources a nill I don't think I can afford to build a
> salt kiln
>
> Tonight I was thinking - (yah, I know its scary when I do that.) that I
> could dig a hole in a hill and stack the brick up in such a way that
> produces a chamber about the width of a brick. say may 3 x 6 feet. and
> back fill with dirt to retain heat. And fire the one side of the brick
> with salt.
>
> Does anyone see major flaws in this thinking?
>
> Does anyon have a suggestion for testing.
>
> Thanks for any ideas.
> Tim
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