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Old 2010-09-24, 1:05pm
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Ok I need some help here
All of a sudden my beads are cracking in half (the entire batch),
I have not changed a thing kiln, torch, glass. what am I doing
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Old 2010-09-24, 1:09pm
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Annealed/or not? Large/small? Encased/not encased? Brands? COE?
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Old 2010-09-24, 3:47pm
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Annealed, small and med, encased with clear vetro and cim 104 coe and pastel 104 coe
have any ideas would appreciate it
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Old 2010-09-24, 3:54pm
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Well, a crack straight through is thermal. Some where it is cooling too quickly. Is the kiln program the same? With the seasons changing, perhaps the lighting in your studio is leading you to believe it is hotter than it really is before you are putting them away?
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Old 2010-09-24, 4:01pm
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i have a jenken and it is set for the sm and med beads, i let them cook for atleast 2hours the program on the kiln is set for 4 hours of cooking on the 980 degree ( i think its 980) and then after the 4 hours it cools slowly but i have been just turning it off after the last bead is is for atleast 30 min, should i stop doing that?
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Old 2010-09-25, 5:53am
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Try ramping down slowly and see if that helps. Hold it for at least 30 minutes at 840, the strain point.
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Old 2010-09-25, 6:10am
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If you are turning your kiln off without ramping it down slowly, then your beads are more than likely not annealed. Annealing is the slow cooling of glass down to room temperature to relieve the stress. Holding it for any period of time and then turning off your kiln is essentially not annealing. Thermodynamics tells you that any heat source when turned off will cool fastest the farther away from room temperature it is. So, your kiln may cool a hundred degrees in the first five minutes after you turn off your kiln and maybe another hundred degrees in the next 10 minutes. Glass should be cooled very slowly until it is below the strain point, like 100 degrees an hour. After that you can cool faster, but there can still be cracking due to thermal shock. It's best to cool slowly until you reach 500 degrees. I always cool at 100 degrees an hour until the temperature is 300 degrees and then turn the kiln off.
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