Over deflocculated slip causes instability in toilet tank


Tuesday 29th December 2015

Sanitary ware factories optimize their slips to have the lowest possible insight-live.com/glossary/86">specific gravity for production volume reasons. Potters would be happy with 1.7 SG whereas numbers approaching 1.9 SG are common in factories. They often teeter on the edge of issues like this (sections softening causing localize warping) and inexperienced technicians can be unaware of the critical balances needed to prevent loss in production.

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