What is the best temperature? this is a new hobby and I have no experience what so ever about kilns. I really appreciate your help.
Thanks.
My hobby is lampwork beading & I want to know if I could use Vulcan JK1 kiln for this job?What is the best tem?
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mike1942f
May 28, 2010 at 4:46 pm
Looking at this picture, http://www.columbusclay.com/images/veb.jpg it seems to be not the best choice. Its temperature range is much higher than you need for annealing beads, for which 1100F is more than enough. But the real problem is the lack of a proper access door for beads still on the mandrel – to anneal you would have to get every bead off the mandrels and you couldn’t garage items.
Bead kilns look like these http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&um=1&sa=1&q=bead+kiln&aq=f&oq=&aqi=&start=0 and have a door in the side that closes down to the level of the inside floor with a shelf outside to support the mandrels.