Kiln Coil repair

Wire? You need SS crimps, not wire. Check your local ceramic supplier.

Why won't heavy gauge wire wrapped around a few times work? (Stay out of this Java... we're chatting).

Hummh....wasn't the fire you had before enuff? Wanna keep pushing the envelope?

What kind of wire? Copper will melt. SS will take the heat but you must have enough mass conducting the current. That's why you use lugs. They're made for the job but will deteriorate. You could wrap wire of the original metal but the contact would be weak. All are quick fixes to get you through a production run.

The proper way is a new element. Call Duralite.

the old ones, vacuum the grooves and install the new ones. You have a new kiln. Don't worry about the bad bricks. I think Javahut said the same thing. This is what I do. I would have dependable elements than have to limp through the annealing cycle with a patch.

His post said the tips were "available". They are not.

A new, unused engine block for a Model T Ford "may" exist somewhere on the planet, but try ordering one from Ford Motor Company.

It's part of his fundamental dishonesty. Lies, half-truths, and braggadacio are his hallmark.

There' places to cut corners, and places it just doesn't make sense... hey if your tight for cash, I'll buy your element for you, you send me one of those neat bottles, you can keep the booze even, I just want the bottle and top!! Wait, send the booze to Jack, and when it's empty, he will send me the bottle and top!! Yeah, that's it!

Sounds like a plan.

You're getting warmer Java. First you offered me a VHS tape for a bottle. Than an old Tiffany book. Now a $35 coil. Hmmmm let's see.... a $500 Bacarrat decanter for a coil? Maybe if you threw in a 900 degree tip.....

$500 for a decanter? Now who is delusional?

Bacarrat.... I just put 'em up for auction and that's what they pay. Of course they're filled with 35 year old single malt scotch. That's gotta be worth a 900 tip?

Not Hardly, well maybe to someone it is.

The value is the whole of the item, to a paperweight collector, such as I, the value is only in the stopper, I'm not a big fan of single malt, was never a vice I could afford to acquire the taste for. The decanter is OK, but crystal is crystal, but the stopper, with all the old millifiori and the crystal layer, that would look good by itself, anywhere. But still not worth the dough......to me, anyway.

I agree but the Bacarrat name and the fact that they "retire" the old designs, make them highly collectable. By the way the Oceanie is the only one I've seen with millifiore in the stopper. The scotches are all gone. I only have a few of the empty's left. I hear you may have some Tiffany books with dust on them available for barter?

Now you have me confused. What is it you have, the millifiori stopper decanters or not? and what do you have in mind? you'd be surprised by what I have....

Bacarrat Oceanie decanters. New in the box with the stopper included. I thought you wanted the scotch!

I don't get it either Java... but I also sell .12 cent comics for as much as $800 bucks! It's a crazy world for us dinosaurs.