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Seeing how the first beaver panel fits in the kiln, cutting it close for height with only 5\/16″ between it and the lid but it will work. A second one- red- will go in when it’s drier. I had to stack a couple of shelf supports behind this first one so that if it tends to want to lean backwards it will be stopped by them, the second panel will need the same behind it.
\nI think next Friday I’ll turn it on. I modified the firing program just a little by adding another hour of pre-heating @195\u00ba making it 9 hours so these are good and dry for sure. I also added 5 minutes at the end making it hold at 2,060\u00ba for 15 minutes. So overall it will take about 25 hours for the firing process and then “overnight” for cooling down.<\/span><\/p>\n

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What most people know is water boils to steam @ 212\u00ba and is gone, but what they don’t know is the chemically bound water in apparently bone dry clay stays in the clay up to at least 700\u00ba before it finally burns out.<\/p>\n

I could use a larger kiln like the Olympic oval model which would be large enough to lay pieces like these flat, but besides the cost being dramatically higher than this one was, I’d have to upgrade my home power line from the weatherhead on in, the 100amp breaker box and incoming line isn’t enough capacity.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I put the first red one in with this one earlier, and decided to turn the thing on and let it run the first segment @195\u00ba until I turned it off now, so they had a good 6-1\/2 hours of that amount of heat as an additional tomake sure they are as dry all the way through as they can be so Friday after work I can turn the kiln on and let it go through the whole 24 hour cycle and shut off Saturday afternoon when I’m here.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seeing how the first beaver panel fits in the kiln, cutting it close for height with only 5\/16″ between it and the lid but it will work. A second one- red- will go in when it’s drier. I had to stack a couple of shelf supports behind this first one so that if it tends to want to lean backwards it will be stopped by them, the second panel will need the same behind it. I think next Friday I’ll turn it on. I modified the firing program just a little by adding another hour of pre-heating @195\u00ba making it 9 hours so these are good and dry for sure. I also added 5 minutes at the end making it hold at 2,060\u00ba for 15 minutes. So overall it will take about 25 hours for the firing process and then “overnight” for cooling down. What most people know is water boils to steam @ 212\u00ba and is gone, but what they don’t know is the chemically bound water in apparently bone dry clay stays in the clay up to at least 700\u00ba before it finally burns out. I could use a larger kiln like the Olympic oval model which would be large enough to lay pieces like these flat, but besides the cost being dramatically higher than this one was, I’d have to upgrade my home power line from the weatherhead on in, the 100amp breaker box and incoming line isn’t enough capacity. I put the first red one in with this one earlier, and decided to turn the thing on and let it run the first segment @195\u00ba until I turned it off now, so they had a good 6-1\/2 hours of that amount of heat as an additional tomake sure they are as dry all the way through as they can be so Friday after work I can turn the kiln on and let it go through the whole 24 hour cycle and shut off Saturday afternoon when I’m here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sculptures"],"yoast_head":"\nSubway beaver panel update - Victorian & Art Deco Architectural Sculptures<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/2017\/05\/subway-beaver-panel-update\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Subway beaver panel update - Victorian & Art Deco Architectural Sculptures\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Seeing how the first beaver panel fits in the kiln, cutting it close for height with only 5\/16″ between it and the lid but it will work. 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I could use a larger kiln like the Olympic oval model which would be large enough to lay pieces like these flat, but besides the cost being dramatically higher than this one was, I’d have to upgrade my home power line from the weatherhead on in, the 100amp breaker box and incoming line isn’t enough capacity. 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