On Tue, 04 Apr 2006 15:55:33 GMT, Bruce L. Bergman
wrote:

On Tue, 04 Apr 2006 09:20:30 GMT, Gunner
wrote:

I ah..ahum....put them in the kiln last night. Its a Cress ceramic
kiln..with no ramping control....simply a temp gage and a
hotter/cooler pot.

And I promptly forgot about them.

You have to use aids to avoid big attacks of 'Can't Remember Sh*t'
like that. Do you have any programmable timers or an old Lux wind-up
kitchen timer around? Or use a good old (loud) alarm clock that will
not quit till you turn it off...

If you figure it's going to need looking at in an hour, set the
alarm for an hour. And set up a second alarm at two hours in case you
miss the first. If you figure it needs looking at before you go to
bed, put something big and heavy on the bed - when you go to move it,
you'll remember.

(And tell the wife/roommate/kids why you are setting the alarm, so
they know not to just turn off the alarm without finding you.)

And in the end... It was already scrap material when you started.
So what did you lose, except some electricity running the kiln? ;-)

If they did warp into interesting shapes, you can always weld them
into a sculpture, let your muse loose.

-- Bruce --


I think next time..Ill fire the oven up without anything in it..fiddle
around until its the proper temperature..THEN load it. It will sag of
course..then slowly return to the proper temp..and I can go from there

Still ****ed me off.

Gunner


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