|
| Tips, Techniques, and Questions -- Technical questions or tips |
2010-05-08, 5:56pm
|
 |
Dark Flower Bead Art
|
|
Join Date: Jan 01, 2010
Location: Central Massachusetts
Posts: 1,629
|
|
Power outage with beads in kiln- HELP
Welcome to Massachusetts. After spending the day happily torching (claimed my mother's day right!) I left my chilipepper (digital control) and was making dinner. The power went out after the kiln had finished its 1 hour "soak" at 960 and the exact temp it was when the power went out was 800 (on its way down). My husband, seeing my distress insisted we get out for dinner. When we got back (about 3 1/2 hours after the power outage) the kiln was at 115. Am I going to be "safe" with these beads or have I lost 4 hours of torch time and more DH silver glass than I care to confess? Any tips?
Thanks
Cara
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
[color="DarkOrchid"]** Check out my Etsy site
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
[/COLOR
Handmade at amazon
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
2010-05-08, 6:03pm
|
 |
Tweedle Dumb
|
|
Join Date: Jan 16, 2009
Location: Dolphins are just gay sharks.
Posts: 1,934
|
|
If they aren't cracked on their way out, just batch anneal them again, and if they survive that round of annealing you are golden. 
__________________
Jamie Lynne (aka Bitty)
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
<Click For My Latest Murrini!
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
<Click! For Pandora Style Beads!
|
2010-05-08, 6:06pm
|
 |
Lampworkaholic!
|
|
Join Date: Apr 22, 2008
Location: Cornelius, NC - because weather
Posts: 5,158
|
|
Don't take the beads out. Ramp up slowly to your soak temperature an run them through another annealing cycle. They will probably be fine.
The same thing happened to me the other night and it happened mid bead. So I popped the almost finished bead in the kiln and shut everything off. The power was off until the wee hours. I only lost two beads, the one I was making, and that was not cracked, it was just not finished, and one other, which may have cracked anyway because the crack didn't look thermal.
So yours should be fine most likely. But how do you keep your silver color if you soak at 960? Mine re-strike or over-strike at 960.
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
"And all will turn to silver glass, a light on the water, grey ships pass into the west." Annie Lennox
|
2010-05-08, 6:15pm
|
|
Dark Flower Bead Art
|
|
Join Date: Jan 01, 2010
Location: Central Massachusetts
Posts: 1,629
|
|
What temp should I soak at????
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
[color="DarkOrchid"]** Check out my Etsy site
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
[/COLOR
Handmade at amazon
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
2010-05-08, 6:18pm
|
|
Dark Flower Bead Art
|
|
Join Date: Jan 01, 2010
Location: Central Massachusetts
Posts: 1,629
|
|
Ok guys...thanks. I think I'll peek to see if they came out good enough to go through the whole cycle again. I tried Lauscha "supernova" and I have no idea if I'll like it or not. I appreciate the tips...
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
[color="DarkOrchid"]** Check out my Etsy site
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
[/COLOR
Handmade at amazon
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
2010-05-08, 7:15pm
|
 |
She's Back & Burnin'
|
|
Join Date: Jun 11, 2005
Location: South Carolina
Posts: 3,117
|
|
Let us know how it went...
Crossing my fingers for you!
Sara
__________________
Midrange torch and too many tanks of oxygen!
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
2010-05-08, 7:44pm
|
|
Dark Flower Bead Art
|
|
Join Date: Jan 01, 2010
Location: Central Massachusetts
Posts: 1,629
|
|
Awwww thanks.... God, LE peeps are the best!
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
[color="DarkOrchid"]** Check out my Etsy site
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
[/COLOR
Handmade at amazon
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
2010-05-09, 3:10am
|
|
Dark Flower Bead Art
|
|
Join Date: Jan 01, 2010
Location: Central Massachusetts
Posts: 1,629
|
|
Update: one bead cracked. it was heavily encased...it was kinda fugly so no tears for me. I even got color out of Terra2 for the first time! Thanks for the help peeps!
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
[color="DarkOrchid"]** Check out my Etsy site
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
[/COLOR
Handmade at amazon
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
2010-05-09, 6:44am
|
 |
The Grand Foobah
|
|
Join Date: Jun 10, 2005
Location: Two miles outside of nowhere
Posts: 428
|
|
I'm right around the corner from you in Petersham and had the same thing happen to me during the storm. I just batch annealed them the following day. I lost a beautiful set of lauscha encased lentils, but that clear is finicky and I suspected they would not make it to begin with. The rest look good to go.
__________________
Jenn
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Foofaraw is a style. An attitude. A fresh glimmer of fun. Foofaraw is unique.
|
2010-05-09, 9:00am
|
|
Dark Flower Bead Art
|
|
Join Date: Jan 01, 2010
Location: Central Massachusetts
Posts: 1,629
|
|
Wow... I had no idea I had lampworking neighbors. my cracked bead was lauscha too. Its my favorite clear but i agree...has a bit of a behavior issue.
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
[color="DarkOrchid"]** Check out my Etsy site
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
[/COLOR
Handmade at amazon
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -7. The time now is 1:52am.
|
