04.23.2011
Categories: kiln firing
So I finally got to turn the kiln off… after a very long day.
After the “electrical hiatus,” the rest of the firing went pretty smoothly.
Nothing too exciting. I tried to bring it back up to temperature a bit slowly,
and then back into reduction. Then it was full-speed ahead… and it finally
came to temperature, I added the soda right around cone 9, soaked until cone 10
and turned it off at 10:30pm. On a good note… according to the pyrometer, the
temperature difference between top & bottom of the kiln was only six degrees!!!
Not bad after a crazy firing!!!
So now it will cool Sunday & Monday while my fingers are crossed
that everything turned out okay. I can finally open it & unload on Monday night.
Pictures to come…