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amaco hf-105 kiln, does 30+ year old model contain asbestos?

updated fri 14 jan 05

 

Logan Oplinger on wed 12 jan 05


Does anyone on the list have information about the Amaco model HF-105 kiln
manufactured some 30 years ago. Does it contain asbestos in the secondary
or back-up insulation?

I seem to recall this being the case when at the university I attended the
same model kiln was replaced. A local high school here has this model kiln
still in use.

Logan Oplinger
Another Tropical Island

Mark Tigges on thu 13 jan 05


You could ask them.
http://www.amaco.com/jsps/amacohome.jsp
then click contact us. They give several email addresses.


On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 09:40:00PM -0500, Logan Oplinger wrote:
> Does anyone on the list have information about the Amaco model HF-105 kiln
> manufactured some 30 years ago. Does it contain asbestos in the secondary
> or back-up insulation?
>
> I seem to recall this being the case when at the university I attended the
> same model kiln was replaced. A local high school here has this model kiln
> still in use.

Dorothy Feibleman on thu 13 jan 05


Dear Mark
I have one in England and it has ceramic fibre around the bricks
cover the edge of the fibre with kiln wash as when you load, you can get it on
your sweater. I bought mine in about 1984.
Best,

D

I bought it, so that I could fire a toilet or sink and it was the only one that
was not expensive in the UK that it would fit in--maybe mine is not a HF-105
but a HF-107 but which ever of those models it is, it is the same build--why
dont you ask Amaco? I am sure they will send you a spec sheet if they are in
the right mood---I tried to order egyptian paste from them for my assistant as
a gift and they tried not to sell it to me saying that it was probably too
expensive to send it to Japan--I said since I was buying it, I would like to
decide if I could afford it or not.They did not respond.

D

Quoting Mark Tigges :

> You could ask them.
> http://www.amaco.com/jsps/amacohome.jsp
> then click contact us. They give several email addresses.
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 09:40:00PM -0500, Logan Oplinger wrote:
> > Does anyone on the list have information about the Amaco model HF-105 kiln
> > manufactured some 30 years ago. Does it contain asbestos in the secondary
> > or back-up insulation?
> >
> > I seem to recall this being the case when at the university I attended the
> > same model kiln was replaced. A local high school here has this model
> kiln
> > still in use.
>
>
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