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Posted by michele on November 5, 2007, 1:30 am
Please log in for more thread options I first started fusing with my little microwave kiln, got it maybe 20/25
years ago? (How long have microwaves been around?) any way, it was fun to
play with and i still have one for museum puposes but there was no control
and i do not recomend trying to learn on it. m
> David Coggins wrote:
>>> Seems they were around some years back. Anybody know anything about
>>> them?
>>>
>>> Jack
>>
>> I seem to remember some years back - maybe 10 or more - that I saw a
>> promotion at a conference for a method to fire pottery in a microwave
>> oven.
>> It turned out to be a refractory container coated inside with some
>> metallic
>> substance which could attain a chamber temperature of 1000 + degrees C
>> when
>> placed in a microwave oven on high. Only trouble was that the container
>> for
>> a domestic microwave was tiny and almost useless - you would need an
>> industrial strength and sized microwave to provide enough power to heat a
>> decent sized chamber, which would probably cost more than a kiln anyway.
>>
>> I suspect the idea died a deserving death.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
> In addition to that,
> what my friend have experimented
> there is very little if any control of the temperature.
> She said it had to make a pair of earrings identical.
>
> One possible use might be PMC clay.
> With that price for material, miniature size is a blessing.
>
> -lauri
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