at the end of the last school year I bought an extremely old (20-25 years) metal enameling kiln from one of my art teachers to anneal with. Had a broken pyrometer and an infinity switch, but it worked and the price was right ($25 dollars) it isnt pretty but it worked and i didnt have the money to buy a brand new jenken or anything!
It worked for perfectly for half a year, at least until last night -- after working for around 6-7 hours (garaging all my work while lampworking) the element failed and my jenken controller read "tCL" indicating that something was wrong with the element. I very very gently removed the element and it's housing from the kiln after unplugging it and then the element from the housing, the element was very brittle with age and i saw where the original break was (then i broke it a few more times getting the rest of it out!)
The kiln is an Amaco Metal Enameling Kiln model 63e (or more recently 62-efc) and I cant, for the life of me, find replacement elements on amaco's site and i need help!
Im aware that the element is a Kanthal A-1 element, but i dont know what gauge -- because with the variations of the newer kilns it could be 14 or 16, and i also dont know where i could buy it.
Can someone please help me! The way the element was configured it looks like i need two of them... ?
Need kiln help (broken element)
