Ball clays are of much smaller particle size than kaolins. On the other hand kaolins are whiter and cleaner burning than ball clays. Smaller the particle size the more plastic a clay will be, this means that if you use a ball clay in place of a kaolin then bentonite might not be necessary to achieve the same level of glaze suspension.
I recently was given a Bluebird 440 pug mill from an elderly gentlemen whose wife had passed away. The pug mill is a Bluebird 440 de-airing. I have contacted Bluebird and left messages, asking for a copy of the owners manual, but no response. If anyone has the owners manual and could email it to ...
The first week I took possession of house in 2004 (just arrived from UK where I had to sell on everything that plugged in and start a new workshop studio) I made appointments with qualified electrician to upgrade the wiring to the studio and to the main panel and place another panel in studio, and place wall plugs for kilns; and the plumber …
My studio consumes about 3000 lbs of clay per year. Compare that to your studio's consumption to decide if this operation can be scaled to your studio. I make these clay/plaster towers every two weeks or so. Also, although damp plaster will hold the clay in a ready state for maybe 8 hours, the clay needs to be removed sometime in that window.
Ball Milling In The Studio Ceramic Arts Daily Community; ... Hello! A complete newbie to this community. I have a home basement studio and I wanted to know how others with a home/ basement studio manage dust? I do wear a mask whenever I clean and do wet sponging but I always keep coughing. I also have 3 cats that are always around me …
I bought ceramic ball media from a ceramic supply vendor in 1 inch, .75 inch and 0.5 inch sizes. It seems to work great, and I have made my own jars since for …
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75 Ball clay. 10 Kaolin. 5 Feldspar. 10 Silica I do a lot of slip trailing with an applicator. If I want the slip to stand up firmly after I have sieved the slip I add a few drops of darvan and then add more ball clay, or some of the dried clay that I am throwing with till a thickened consistency. All the ball clay makes this a nice slippery slip.
When I cleaned the pugger out, chunks of black scale were in the clay; up to 1/2" diameter. The picture I uploaded is the clay I cleaned out of the pug mill before I replaced the aluminum housing. That ball of clay is the size of a tennis ball. I may have some fired pieces that alerted me to the problem.
geez, its only been 18months. first we got the mill going then I found a porcelain jar hidden in the center of Portugal. Bailey ceramics sells porcelain balls, 1/2 inch in diameter. for a 1.5 liter jar I apparently need 3 pounds of porcelain balls. Well to have that shipped from th USA is a bit p...
Compared to the Bailey A-400 Stainless steel de-airing pug mill at $4950 with the table for it (apparently Bailey doesn't carry any sort of roller thingy to handle the extruded pugs). ... Ceramic Arts Daily Forums ; Equipment Use and Repair ; Revisiting the pugmill decision Theme . Ceramic Arts Network Community Forum (Default)
Hello lovely potters, Having tried a raku firing at a friend's, I would love to do some of my own - but my kiln is an electric front-loader. Does anyone heat the pots up in that and pull them out (horizontally of course) to put in the sawdust? I realise standard raku tongs grab the pot by the scr...
Ceramic Arts Daily Forums ; Equipment Use and Repair "budget" ball mill "budget" ball mill. By liambesaw August 22, 2020 in Equipment Use and Repair. Start new topic; Recommended Posts. liambesaw. Posted …
In school we used a ball mill and wall mixer, that was 20 years ago. But it took forever, hours of mixing and milling. ... Ceramic Arts Daily Forums ; Clay and Glaze Chemistry ; Calcined zinc--adjustment? Theme . Ceramic Arts Network Community Forum (Default)
I had 3 bones taken out of my wright wrist in 2012-I have not wedged any clay from a bag of new clay since then to speak of. I bought a peter pugger (used shortly after surgery) and do wedge that output either.
Hi all, I am a super new potter and have been throwing for about 8 months after taking some classes. Recently I just can't seem to get my clay centered. I have done it many times before, but in the last few weeks I'm finding that it's off centre in either the very base of my clay ball, or right i...
The ceramics professor told us beginning students that where he studied pottery, a went to the studio one night to pug clay alone and her long hair got caught in the auger and she was pulled into the hopper and pugged with the clay.
They also take up studio space and in a smallish studio that matters. Of course if you are just not the type that can toss the clay then a pug mill makes more sense then trashing your wrist :-) Since February, it's about 100 dollars of clay. once it starts raining again I'll be putting it in a 250 gallon stock tank to slake and decided I'll ...
My studio is 50m from the Indian Ocean and gets pretty dirty on a daily basis just from the sea air. I have a cleaner who comes once a week and wipes EVERYTHING down - its essential. As far as the dust from the clay is concerned - my studio floor is paved with brick pavers painted white with road paint, so I just put the hose in every now and ...
Ceramic Arts Daily Forums ; Clay and Glaze Chemistry ; Ball milling glaze Ball milling glaze. By docweathers March 12, 2013 in Clay and Glaze Chemistry. Start new topic; Prev; 1; 2; Next; Page 2 of 2 . Recommended Posts. docweathers. Posted March 24, 2013. docweathers. Members; 842
Hi, a friend of mine moved and gave me 500#s of used clay and there’s bone dry and hard wet clay. I also have about 500# of really hard new clay of a different kind that will need to be worked separately. I have a Shimpo PM-071 Pugmill no vacum, but I don’t have much experience with it, or an...
yeah, i have a bluebird 440 and find it a devil to clean. any suggestions would be gladly received. i had to stop potting for over two months due to a hip replacement with a loooong recovery. even tho i wadded plastic in the hopper and covered the extruding area, i have a hard block in there. will nothing but a good amount of water do the trick. and …
The pug mill tends to need about 80-90% capacity for it to mix, otherwise it just spins a large ball. The same pointless spinning can occur just from water additions. It takes a while to figure out how to break the spinning and start mixing again.
I just finished making a direct drive ball mill on the cheap. I'm milling my first batch of material. I have stainless steel ball bearings (1/4 ",1/2", and 3/4" dia.) in the drum.
Your studio practice (no offense) is irrelevant because I'm not a production potter. I made my living in Colorado as a production potter in the '70's but my realization that I would just as soon work in a factory attaching lugs to some machine as attaching 50 handles to 50 mugs was part of the reason for my 35-year sabbatical.
Ball mills are traditionally made out of porcelain, but I have seen 5 gallon plastic buckets used. The speed is critical. you want the clay balls set at a speed to …
There have been a few ideas put forth when yarn/knitting bowls have come up on the forum before. A few things that have been mentioned are throw a bit thicker than usual, don't overfire, use a clay rated to a higher cone and fire under it's maturity, don't make the cutout to wide or to deep into the pot, press the area that tends to warp …
use the human hammer mill. a sledge hammer, and a 5 gal bucket. never more than 10 pounds in bucket. think butter churn. ive made dust out granite chips and feldspar chips should be fine with clay another suggestion was to place clay, stones etc between 2 metal plates drive car over.... refill and repeat a ball mill would also work
@mky1000, Often there is a tendency of the beginner to mold the hand to the cone on the wheel head.The angle of the lt hand is important to keep from leaving the bottom wonky. If you keep the palm of the hand perpendicular to the wheel head, or even angle it slightly tilted away from the clay, the edge of the hand opposite of the thumb will …
