: johnb - Viewing Profile

Hi, I'm looking for either agreement with my solution or alteritives . I have a small Paragon kiln, cone 10. I only fire it to cone 6. I receintly fired it to 6 and when i open it I had alot of dunnting, cracking. I thought this was caused for a new glaze that I was trying out. The lost work was only testers so not so bad. I fired it again with another load and this time when the firing was finished I happened to turn out the lights and turned to look at the kiln and saw this orange band running around the room. I quickly adjusted a ramp/hold program for a slower cool down. Ok there is the breif history. I just finished another glaze firing and said to myself I need to fix this. I have some 1/8" fiber blanket which I thought that I could cut it to fit around the top of the walls and cement it in place with a refractory patching cement that I have. I will fire TO C 6 ONE MORE TIME AND THEN cement the top of the blanket. What do you think of this plan? John ( a new member)