[TheForge] brazing revisited

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Probably the same stuff sold as kiln wash, used to coat kiln shelves 
when firing pottery..pottery supply is probably cheapest.
Barnard clay possibly.
After reading your post,I was thinking of using actual pancake batter 
and enlisting the dog to clean up the HAZ.

Bruce Freeman wrote:
> That sounds like a clay wash - fire clay or something such in water.
> It's used as an "anti-stick" when slumping glass over forms in a
> furnace.  It will keep the almost-molten glass from sticking to
> anything - steel, kiln shelves, etc.
> 
> <snip> They bought some powdered mixture that had to
>> be blended with water.  It was the consistency of light pan cake batter
>> that we brushed on.  When it dried we did all the welding and nothing
>> stuck to it.   I never saw it again but might be worth lookin up.
>>
> Bruce
> NJ
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