melting glass with wood ...

[Paul Koehler]

well a bunch of them potter girls wanted a high temp cone 10 wood kiln ..so the boys built them one ..first hump 4 ft tall fire box next hump 6 ft tall ware chamber 3rd little hump 3ft tall then 21 ft chimney rock and roller the ground would shake at high temp ..any way split bone dry pine as thin as you could ...throw 20 30 sticks in every 30 seconds and listen to the roar flames would shoot 20 ft out the stack .. ...well what we gonna do with this 3rd chamber duhhhh melt glass in it cast up some rectilinear pots not a great shape live you learn and the boys started to melt in the 3rd .. 2 brick spy hole.. old swedish goblet pipes very light weight .. a flat piece of wood on leg ..roll pipe right there as you squat in front of spy hole to reheat.. make small egyptian knock offs vials bowls cups ..stuff ...
ash turned clear glass milky white lotz of bubbles cords ect funky stuff ..one time melted red and black cullett and stirred with stick got vails of colours old school Mesopotamian stone tablet translation stuff ..was fun having girls fire kiln late in to the night so boys could play in the earlie hours ..if you build a kiln they will fire it ..woof
some times truth is stranger than fiction ... perhaps this is one of those times ..koehler ..
next post cold fusion ... will trade info for cookies ..

[Dave Bross]

Sky has an intern who just finished up at Alfred in the glass program. He was saying that they built a wood melter with a tall stack for a class project and that it was more effective than they ever imagined it would be.

[Sky Campbell]

Yes very impressive Egyption wood furnace. I'll try to post some pics. This furnace used no blower and relied on updraft to really get it cooking. They built there own pots and and manage to pull off quite a few small seedy pieces. The surprise was how little hard wood it needed to maintain it's temperature after you get it ripping hot with pine. It even had an annealer powered by waste heat from the furnace.

We have plans on building one for a open house here. Hopefully sometime this semester if we have a few students who are game. I'll be sure to photo document it .

[Franklin Sankar]

Paul where were you all this time? Keep it going I am reading
Franklin

[Pete VanderLaan]

the light at the end of the tunnel is a train maybe?

[Paul Koehler]

Originally posted by Dave Bross
Sky has an intern who just finished up at Alfred in the glass program. He was saying that they built a wood melter with a tall stack for a class project and that it was more effective than they ever imagined it would be.


v1 x v2=f
velocity times volume equalls flow ..
stack height increases velocity ..
thus volume .more air ..more heat
as long as you got the hydrocarbons
to back your play .
old school fun school ..
we cheated used lehr in shop ..
lazy glassblowers ..

[Paul Koehler]

Originally posted by Pete VanderLaan
the light at the end of the tunnel is a train maybe?



or perhaps the energy surge of cold fusion ..
with experience one can bend and break the rules ...