I’m in the middle of building a small cloud chamber to make ionizing radiation visible. This is just to document a few findings of mine without going into the details of how and why a cloud chamber works. My cloud Weiterlesen…
The setup is very simple: A weed burner and a 11kg cylinder of propane. This must have been the quickest glaze firing I’ve ever done. This kiln gets up to 1200°C in about 2 to 3 hours with no rush. Weiterlesen…
The first kiln I built is described here. I’m in the process of building yet another kiln. This time it’s quite a bit smaller and more portable. I hope the smaller size will help in reducing cycle times. What this Weiterlesen…
Three ‘hidasuki’ pots and three normal pots from the last firing. The bamboo certainly does something to the pots when fired in a saggar. Unfortunately the saggar cracked during the firing despite being made from very refractory clay. Also the Weiterlesen…
Having another go at the ‘hidasuki’ pottery. I still don’t really know how it’s done, what type of clay you need and I certainly don’t have rice straw. But I’m going to try anyway. I used string to tightly wrap Weiterlesen…
This is the first x-ray image I produced. A garage door opener is used to turn on the filament heater and the high voltage suppy. Then the camera is triggered remotely with a shutter speed of 1 or 2 seconds. Weiterlesen…
This charger failed and I wanted to check what’s the reason and if it could be fixed easily. Unfortunately I cannot read the marking on that SO chip. Also it’s very likely that another failed component cause the explosion of Weiterlesen…
Some of the few good pots from this glaze firing…