[Jewelry making - Article 00922] - Re: [Orchid] Burnout temperatures and times

[Peter W . Rowe]

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>     Have you ever gotten up at 6:30 in the morning and turned the Kiln
>     on and leave for a while to workout and come back only to realize
>     you turned the knob to the high setting instead of the low?

    Just wait until you have the chance to compare this to how you feel
    when, in the middle of a burnout cycle, you sort of wonder why it
    smells rather worse than it should, and when you later open the kiln
    to pull out the flask for casting, notice a weird large ring of ash
    around the flask, and then it dawns on you that you put the flask in
    the oven without removing the rubber sprue base... 

    Takes you down a notch. But you won't be alone. I know several fine
    casters who've experienced that little oversight. In one case, the
    extra fumes set off fire alarms, and the fire department had to break
    into companies office door in the middle of the night to
    investigate... 

    And then there are the simple mistakes. Two flasks in the oven, one
    to be cast in yellow gold, the other in white gold. A little slip of
    the brain cells and you've got a bunch of castings all in the wrong
    color. Murphy's law, of course, will state that all of them are
    careful hand carved waxes, rather than just mold injections, and of
    course, several will be time critical rush jobs... 

cheers
Peter
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