can this kiln fire all clay including the sterling silver clays
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Hello, Thank you for your interest on our products. Yes, Silver clay (PMC & PMC+) required just 900 C (1650 F) when this kiln reached 1000 C (1832 F). You can use it with all types of clay. Hope this information will be useful to you. With Regards Yossef D'Lurie Technicalsupermarket TSMP LTD
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Hello M. Thomas, I can not answer this question, I have never tried it. However, the pottery company should be able to answer this for you. I love mine, use it all the time, but in the micro.
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Alot of pottery suppliers carry clay that you can fire in your oven...much better than air dry clay that came with the wheel... try Continental Clay in Minneapolis...toll free 1-800-432-clay or 612-3318564....they ship to all 50 states and I have been buying from them since 1975...Connors Pottery on face book...tc
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This furnace does not get hot enough to melt gold and silver. It is designed for lead which melts at a much lower temperature.
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Absolutely, that is why I purchased it. I have an electric glass top stove, and I wanted to use some of my beautiful stoneware casseroles on it for cooking. Using this metal diffuser allows me to cook on the glass without cracking any of my beautiful clay cooking pots.
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Mine burned out after being used for a while on wood. I suspect stone would be asking a bit too much of it.
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Chances are no. I can't say definitively because I've never tried it. This kit was made for melting lead. (melting point 650 F) and I use it for working with pewter (tin, melting point 450 F). Silver requires around 1500 F to melt. This kit is inexpensive and works well for what it was designed for. It *might* heat up hot enough for silver, maybe, but it will likely burn out quickly and stop working. Silver smelters cost more because they get a lot hotter and require a better construction to handle the heat. If you're making silver jewelry you will also want a finer set of tools. The size of this smelter (I melt a couple lbs at a time) requires more in materials to be manageable. Pewter and lead are inexpensive. I would want a smaller smelter for silver and do it in ounces.
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I'm a beginner using air dry clay to practice. The wheel works really well. Eventually we all need a kiln but the air dry clay is good initially if you don't have one. Something to aspire to!
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I found about 9% shrinkage in the clay. It will be about a 70% chance of surviving the kiln. The longer/dryer you get the clay the less it will Crack when fired. Overall it is a very good clay as far as wet clay is concerned. Crack free clay would be non sulphur based oil clay. But you don't fire it. You cast it in silicone
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Nope, this pottery is amazing! Use it everyday and have it in two houses! Haven't tried it with steak knives though.
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I don't know but it has such a slow heating process that it should work. I had to turn the flame up pretty high to get it to slowly heat a cast iron pot and an anodized pan so it should work with glass if you control the heat. It does discolor but I expected that. I originally bought it for ceramic cookware because it was recommended so Pyrex type glass shouldn't be a problem. I haven't had the chance to try it for the ceramic yet. Hope this helps.
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I don't know. I'm just a beginner I got it because it is low fire clay . You might want to look at the company's website for all safe uses.
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You can fuse 90 and 96 COE. I guess as long as you do not fuse stained with anything other than stained, it will work. I have not used stained in the MWK, but know many who have fused stained in a larger kiln with no problems. Be sure to use thinfire paper too!
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you would be able to manually light the burners with a match/lighter, but the oven would not work, nor would the electric ignitor
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I haven't tried on anything like gems of stones, it works on silver well though. Sorry
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I haven't tried on it on sterling, but I would be very optimistic that it would. I don't know anything in the surface chemistry of silver that would give this epoxy a problem. It bonds like a weld to steel. Having said this, the stress put on jewelry by even normal use limits the places you can use any adhesive, and silver solder is the answer, not epoxy.
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Nope. Direct flame only. Get a single burner butane burner like an Iwatani and a cast iron heat difuser. Works great, although this one is small for main dishes. la Souk makes larger ones that are very nice and very reasonably priced. Produces very good roasted meats (chicken/lamb) with little effort.