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Using a Pottery Wheel: Using an Electric Kiln

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Summary: How do I use an electric kiln for my pottery projects? Learn this and more in this free arts and crafts video series taught by a pottery expert.

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Mark Kooy Mark Kooy has been teaching high school students how to work with ceramics, metals, painting, drawing, and publications for over 20 years. He is an avid scuba... read more

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Using a Pottery Wheel: Using an Electric Kiln

On behalf of expertvillage.com, this is Mark Coy again and we are talking about ceramic equipment. What we have here is your basic cone 06 electrical kiln. It is made out of soft fire brick. The soft fire brick is what we like to line our with because it reflects heat It reflects it back into the ceramics inside the kiln and the ceramic itself is actually a harder material that absorbs heat. That makes it more efficient for bringing up our temperature and holding it at different rates and all those kind of things. We have vent holes down the front so that we can regulate where we have air coming in and going out. Of course, hot air rises so it is going to come out at different places. But if we pull a vent out at the bottom, we will have cold air coming in as we let hot air out. So we have to be careful how we travel the air through the kiln but it does allow for that.

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