I am very concerned about the noises I heard. I noticed popping and crackling when I opened the lid at around 100 F. I closed the lid and waited a while. I eventually unloaded at 92 F. I can't imagine that the noises are from cooling too fast except that the outside temp was cooler than the kiln temp but other than that the kiln had been cooling for 36 hours. It seems as though my temp readout and the actual temp don't agree b/c the kiln fired hotter than it should have (the 7 cone melted) but the readout was correct for ^6. I didn't have a problem with the bisque fire so I wasn't expecting any problems with the glaze fire----as far as temp goes anyways. I used the cones for good measure, but I didn't check them like I should----LESSON LEARNED. Anyways, does anyone know what the noises are? LMac
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