Can you dry a mug with handle in two hours? Yes.

Thursday 16th April 2015

The lid of my firing kiln seems to be just the right environment for even drying, even of freshly insight-live.com/glossary/359">thrown pieces. By the time this mug really got under way here the kiln was at 1000F and the lid was getting pretty hot. The bottom was the warmest and the top coolest, the exact opposite of how drying normally becomes uneven (the top drying first). This principle could be employed to make a heated drying chamber. The interior space could be kept at high humidity and a draft of air through it could remove humid air and the needed rate.

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Drying Ceramics Without Cracks, Drying Performance, Handles

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