#kiln — Public Fediverse posts

Spent my Easter eating a delicious Danish Kringle with Ali and then made this doodle.

I am excited, its forbidden in a few ways. One of which is the tube sizes, which are fine tuned for brightness. That big bright white 25mm tube is thin lead glass- and it would take awhile to get it as hot as the 10 mm #blacklight tube, which will be made brighter by being the narrowest, most focused part of the arc.

On a bombarder, that would suck the narrow blacklight in. It is possibly the best combination to be bombarded in terms of glass heat sensitivity- buut I have an oven, so its baking out over night so I can make this the first try guaranteed :).

Hooray for Easter! After Minneapolis, I needed a day to sleep, and I still should send some emails, but I wanted to relax, and I feel recharged, -but there is about to be so much commercial bending.

Yaaay work!

#doodle #glass #neon #palestine #nicewarmwhite #rgb #4500k #muranoglass #leadglass #argonmercury #kiln #sculpture #brooklyn #nyc

Whelp, it only took 10 or so months, but I finally got that kiln working!

The electricians that initially ran the power to the kiln didnt hook up one of the leads.

Chatting with an electrician a few weeks ago, they asked me to find the breaker that feeds the subpanel it is connected to. After knocking the company server offline fiddling with the totally unlabeled main breaker on Thursday, I waited till everyone had left Friday evening, turned off that big breaker and got to work with the screwdriver and multimeter.

Turns out that one leg of the 80 amp breaker they tied it into was not getting power. I noticed an unused three phase breaker that had the voltage and current I needed, so I switched the wires to that and voila- I have the power! Once again, my amateur electrician skills put to use :)

Still cannot believe we have this kiln now. My mind is racing with all the possibilities!

#electric #kiln #tools #brooklyn #studio #glass #ceramics #possibilities #circuitbreaker #artist