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general colour frit substitute

updated wed 12 mar 03

 

Glenn Minards on tue 11 mar 03


I have tested a crawl glaze with an old General Colour Frit GF-501, ancient
stock from a ceramic supply company here in Australia, and achieved the
result that has taken me six months to finally get.The only trouble is that
the cost of the frit is AUS$700.00 for A 25 KG bag.I have searched the
archives and found a frit comparison chart that lists General ,Ferro ,Pemco
and other frits and the closest I can see that looks anything like a GF-501
are 2 General GF-5'S with Ferro equivalents of frit 3552 and 3563. Is
there any one out there in the land of THE LOST FRIT who can tell me what
is the Ferro equivalent of GF-501 and, if 3552 and 3563 are the correct
substitutes, what are their modern day updated FERRO equivalents.Or
alternatively what is the formula for GF-501. Cheers....... Glenn Minards
Port Elliot Australia.

Ababi on wed 12 mar 03


Hello Glenn
I looked for the analysis of this frit in all the on line sources I know and could not find
it's analysis. I you know please e mail me if you don't do one of the two ( in case that
you fire to ^6)
A) send me a JPG of the glaze
B) Look for a similar glaze in
http://members4.clubphoto.com/ababi306910/185990/
http://members4.clubphoto.com/ababi306910/981929/
http://members4.clubphoto.com/ababi306910/775033/
If you like any write the slide number from left to right and down the page and I shall E
mail you
Please add the name of your available clay and I will recalculate it in my NZ glaze
machine!
It can be done easily with any frit
Ababi
---------- Original Message ----------

>I have tested a crawl glaze with an old General Colour Frit GF-501, ancient
>stock from a ceramic supply company here in Australia, and achieved the
>result that has taken me six months to finally get.The only trouble is that
>the cost of the frit is AUS$700.00 for A 25 KG bag.I have searched the
>archives and found a frit comparison chart that lists General ,Ferro ,Pemco
>and other frits and the closest I can see that looks anything like a GF-501
>are 2 General GF-5'S with Ferro equivalents of frit 3552 and 3563. Is
>there any one out there in the land of THE LOST FRIT who can tell me what
>is the Ferro equivalent of GF-501 and, if 3552 and 3563 are the correct
>substitutes, what are their modern day updated FERRO equivalents.Or
>alternatively what is the formula for GF-501. Cheers....... Glenn Minards
>Port Elliot Australia.

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