[TheForge] Re: pot

[Mike Spencer]

ries wrote:

> the original black with speckles coffee pots, or stove doors, were
> actual glass frit, baked in oven til they fused into one continuous
> sheet of real vitrious enamel.

Yeah, I know. We have a "cowboy coffee pot" of the type under
discussion and actually use some other pieces of enamelware.  And I've
done a little (very amateur) hobby enameling.

> Car manifolds are sometimes "enamelled"- but its paint. POR 15 is
> popular, and its often called enamel, but its nothing like molten
> glass.

I have a vague recollection of seeing an exhaust manifold that had what
appeared to be proper glass enamel coating, back when I was doing car
stuff in the early 70s. I might  misremember or have been mistaken
then. 

In any event, plasma arc spray is not going to apply anything that
could reasonably be called "paint".  Here's a place where you can
order (allegedly) vitreous enamel-coated steel panels for your next
subway or air terminal project:

http://www.tjskl.org.cn/products-search/cz50b9562/vitreous_enamelled_steel_panel-pz5d1bbe4.html


I haven't found anything about small businesses using vitreous enamel
or ceramic plasma arc spray or anybody advertizing the gear to small
operations so maybe it's a process that's way too costly for anybody
except major industrial players.  Dunno. Lacking first-hand knowledge,
it always seemed like a handy process to me.


- Mike

-- 
Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~. 
                                                           /V\ 
mspencer at tallships.ca                                     /( )\
http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/                        ^^-^^