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thermocouple & shelves

updated sat 22 jul 06

 

Jeanette Harris on fri 21 jul 06


Thanks to Lisa Skeen, I just had a forehead-slapping moment about how
I place the shelves in my Skutt.

I've been putting shelves in exactly 180 degrees off from the diagram
on her website, www.LIVING-TREE.NET under Kiln Info, thinking that I
had to leave the area around the thermocouple open and would work
pots around it. By putting the shelves as shown in the illustration,
the large center area of the shelf is open and a small piece could be
worked into the area where the thermocouple is at the corner and
giving the possibility of one more pot in the kiln at each firing.




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Jeanette Harris
Clay Engineer
Poulsbo WA