A batch of fired clay test bars in the Plainsman Clays lab

Friday 21st November 2014

A batch of fired test bars that have just been boiled and weighed, from these we get insight-live.com/glossary/265">dry shrinkage, fired shrinkage and porosity. Each pile is a different mix, fired to various temperatures. Test runs are on the left, production runs on the right. Each bar is stamped with a code number and specimen number (the different specimens are the different temperatures). The measurements have all been entered into our group account at insight-live.com. Now I have to lay out and photograph each pile and upload the picture into the code-numbered record. Upon doing so I compare color and tests results to make decisions on what to do next (documenting these in insight-live).

Pages that reference this post in the Digitalfire Reference Library:

SHAB Shrinkage/Absorption Test, Low Budget Testing of the Raw and Fired Properties of a Glaze, Simple Physical Testing of Clays, Ceramic Tile Clay Body Formulation, Firing Shrinkage, Plainsman Cone 6 Electric Standard

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