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Nan Rothwell

Faber, VA

2008

 
  Gas Reduction Car Kiln

Note the bracing on the cart to stabilize the door bricks

 

Gas Reduction Kiln
With Shared Chimney
to Gas Salt Kiln

  Forced Air burners
   

 

Gas Reduction Kiln

Pipe Clamps used as securing latch for kiln door.

 

   

Gas Reduction Kiln

   

 

Gas Salt Kiln

 

  The burner ports show the heaviest signs of wear in this salt kiln.

 
Wadding still can be seen on the shelves from the previous firing. Note the melting of the I.F.B.,
where sodium vapors have eaten into the bricks.

 

  Bricks on the cart are canter-levered
to provide an air lock between cart and chamber.

 

The two kilns share a common chimney and also share the blower,
which is used for the separate burners for the two kilns.
Passive damper in the chimney allows cold air to be drawn in,
thus reducing the draft during the firing.		  

 

 

Insulating Fiber Blanket is used as gasket
on the rear wall below the flue.		 Insulating Fiber Blanket is used as a gasket on rear of cart.

 

Studio Exit toward kiln building

Nan designed her studio in a way that allows her to move ware carts from her studio to her kiln building, via a boardwalk.

 Kiln Building Entrance

Note: Boardwalk allows for the use of ware carts,
to ferry pots to the kiln building.

 

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