Gaye Sekula on sat 16 aug 03
Well, I've finally psyched up to trying my new "old" kiln. I got started
rather late in the day and afraid I may be up a while. How long does it
take, on avaerage, for an electric kiln to reach Cone 06? I'm tired and I
wanna go to bed. Thanks, Gaye
Dave Gayman on sun 17 aug 03
Aside from the fact that this is hardly an instant reply, the real answer
is, "it depends" -- on kiln size, age of the elements, your wiring, your
available voltage and amperage, and how full the kiln is.
My little 18"x22" internal size is around 4 hours to 04 with not much in
it. Fully loaded, it's closer to 5-6, with a kiln vent.
Dave
At 10:54 PM 8/16/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>How long does it
>take, on avaerage, for an electric kiln to reach Cone 06?
joan woodward on sun 17 aug 03
Hi Gaye,
I fire bisque on computer "Cone Fire 05 Slow" and it comes out 06 in 12 hours, give or take a few minutes. Depends how fast you want to go.
Joan in Colorado
Gaye Sekula wrote:
Well, I've finally psyched up to trying my new "old" kiln. I got started
rather late in the day and afraid I may be up a while. How long does it
take, on avaerage, for an electric kiln to reach Cone 06? I'm tired and I
wanna go to bed. Thanks, Gaye
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Jim Brooks on sun 17 aug 03
how fast do you want to fire.. some think slow firings are better (and i
belong to this group i fire cone 06 in about 7 to 8 hours... However some
commercial tile companies complete the tile from greenware to glazed in just 27
minutes.. ( yes that it true -- from start to finish in less than 30 minutes)
Jim in Denton.
Ron Roy on tue 19 aug 03
Just a short note on this.
Manufactures need to formulate clays and glazes in a certain way to avoid
the problems with fast firing.
If studio potters want to fire fast they will need to understand the
problems associated with fast firings .
Clays will have to be chosen that don't have a lot of contaminents and
they will need to be fluxed higher - glazes will need to have much more
melter or they simply won't melt.
RR
>how fast do you want to fire.. some think slow firings are better (and i
>belong to this group i fire cone 06 in about 7 to 8 hours... However some
>commercial tile companies complete the tile from greenware to glazed in just 27
>minutes.. ( yes that it true -- from start to finish in less than 30 minutes)
>
> Jim in Denton.
Ron Roy
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