tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900243389389147175.post8724844284615603714..comments2024-03-08T05:24:41.005-05:00Comments on Make Your Own Bricks: I did it! I have made fully fired clay bricks.rwhendrixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11031355356490984560noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900243389389147175.post-84818616255372257932009-09-20T20:26:05.743-04:002009-09-20T20:26:05.743-04:00Yes Peter you may put a link up. Good to read of y...Yes Peter you may put a link up. Good to read of your interest in my experiments with natural clays. I will look into getting some cones like you recommended to try and identify my temperatures in the kiln better. Very useful information, thank you. I have since fired the kiln again and had improved outcomes on my red bricks. I will post some of the results in a new entry. Look foward to chatting again,<br />Richardrwhendrixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11031355356490984560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900243389389147175.post-60072895395305304732009-09-19T01:22:47.313-04:002009-09-19T01:22:47.313-04:00Hello Richard,
Thank you so much for your comment ...Hello Richard,<br />Thank you so much for your comment on my blog, it has been a real joy to hop across to your blog as a result of that, and to discover what you have been up to. I am really impressed with your kilns and furnesses. The aluminum smelter was delightful, with the nice brickwork around the fire place and the round chimney. As a potter, I also had the thought that it might make a raku kiln with very little modification. <br /><br />I am interested with your brick making, and the tests that you have made with your local clay and various fluxes. The use of waste glass as a flux was great, and looks like it will work out well. I am assuming that your local clay must be quite refractory, possibly a fireclay. I think that our clay here, which is earthenware, would fuse together quite readily at the temperatures you are firing to without the need of an extra flux. It would be interesting to be able to fire a sample of your clay to stoneware temperatures (maybe in a local school kiln??) and see how it performed. It would also be interesting to place a few pyrometric cones in your kiln to see what temperature you were acheiving. The red cones are badly affected by reduction atmosphere in a kiln (as the iron oxide in them turns into a flux under reduction), so if you do try some, do use the non iron bearing Orton cones if you can get them. (I would be tempted to set cone 07, 05, and 03 in your kiln as a starting point.)<br /><br />I would like to put a link to your site from mine if that is OK with you.<br /><br />Best Wishes, PeterPeterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03078608554226394069noreply@blogger.com