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Using a Pug Mill to Reconstitute Clay

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Summary: How to use a pug mill to reconstitute clay for making pottery; learn this and more in this free video arts and crafts lesson taught by a pottery making expert.

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Contact: thehairypotters.com

Betty Ingham Betty and her husband Ben have purchased and entirely remodeled a 100 year old Victorian home. They also own a pottery studio.
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Using a Pug Mill to Reconstitute Clay

Hi I'm Betty Ingham my husband Ben and I have our own business called the Hairy Potters and we make pottery and I'm speaking today on behalf of Expert Village. When we get to about right here we put this brick and this brick will tell us the temperature. Encase something happens and we couldn't see the our cones then we would have this to go by. But we had to use it a couple of times when it just got so light and hot in there that we could not see the cones. It turns it bright bright orange when it's firing. If we have a piece of pottery that cracks or while something happens to it while we are making it we just put it in our container here as scraps this is the structural clay. This is what I use on the slab roller and this is the clay that we throw with if we had some leftover in our potters wheel and then we set it out in a big table and then we go ahead and we put it in our plug mill. What we do we feed it into here and it will turn it around, we add water, we are trying to take the air out and the water out and then it comes out here in blocks. It is definitely pay for itself for use because we do not like to waste any of the clay it is almost like throwing money away.

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