[TheForge] Ceramic chip forge

[Dave Brown]

At 00:24 09/13/04, you wrote:
>Dave:
>My old potter buddy Al Kinkle used to fire with drain oil to cone 12 
>regularly till one day he had a rush order and fired off the kiln during 
>daylight hours...big mistake.
>The pall was ...apalling.

No problem.  I get smoke free flame right from the start, then adjust back 
as the unit heats up.  I've used both waste motor oil and waste vegetable 
oil so far.  I want to try waste transmission oil next.

>The 1/2"alumina ball mill balls sound just like the ideal thing...perhaps 
>start with nat gas for the preheat?
>Al said he could melt about anything  with drain oil and vacuume 
>cleaners.....PF

I'm gonna see what's it's gonna cost to send some rr spikes to the UK to 
see if it's worthwhile to work out a swap with Rich Maynard over 
there.  Otherwise I'll have to see what the local ceramic suppliers have.

Dave Brown
Heritage Smithing
Green Bay, WI