{"id":35,"date":"2012-06-27T10:33:37","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T14:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lindaarbuckle.com\/lindaarbuckle-blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2012-06-27T10:36:41","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T14:36:41","slug":"testing-for-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lindaarbuckle.com\/lindaarbuckle-blog\/testing-for-treasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing for treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clean Creek Products<\/a>\u00a0is a company that markets materials reclaimed from coal mining. They’ve had a booth at NCECA\u00a0to showcase their iron and manganese. There is a show coming up that features these materials, and I’ve been working with their iron and manganese to try to get something pretty in a glaze. On top of most non-lead majolica glazes, iron is just so very brown. Not amber-golden, not rich rust, but just brown. I rarely use brown in my majolica color palette, so I thought I’d take this as a nudge to do some fun slip work with paper stencils and look for glazes to go over that that are rust or golden.<\/p>\n

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circles are unity amounts of oxides for Meyers Clear 04 compared to grey bars of normal limits<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

UF\u00a0has some clear glazes for 04 use – Deb’s Clear and (Ron) Meyers Clear. Both have issues. The Meyers Clear is the main one. If it gets thick, you get evil small craters that won’t heal, and just get worse if re-fired. I think it’s too viscous. The alumina is high, in addition to having boron. I’ve tested some similar formulas with lower alumina. The\u00a0 raw Meyers is also very high in frit. In addition to cost, high-frit glazes have to be applied unusually thinly for a good result – hard for beginners to judge.<\/p>\n

The recipe for the Meyers Clear:
\nFrit 3124\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 89.8
\nEPK\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 10.2\u00a0 plus 2 Bentonite.<\/p>\n

When I look at the glaze under a 30x little microscope (Radio Shack has some that are cheap – $9.00 last I bought one), the glaze is filled with trapped bubbles. The up side is that it doesn’t run or even move, but it also in unforgiving about being too thick, and it’s very easy to get it that way.<\/p>\n

My new version with less alumina and a bit more KNaO, and a test even less Al. Results were counterintuitive. The Less Alumina version of M4\u00a0has MORE bubbles that causes milkiness thick. Hmmm. Difference in clay color may be from different batches of test tiles. Using up old stuff. Slip colors very similar. Somehow, the bucket labeled WHITE SLIP is coming out pale yellow. Need to re-mix. Out of touch w\/studio during the school year. Nice to get back to daily contact. M4 bleeds the black slip ever so slightly when thick. Maybe I can live w\/that. I know just enough about glaze materials to know I don’t know enough. The M4\u00a0version looks better than the original Meyers Clear to me, but it will take testing on real thiings to see how it works.<\/p>\n

Unity formula info from Glazchem<\/a>:
\nMeyers Clear<\/strong> <\/span>original
\nKNaO\u00a0 0.302\u00a0\u00a0 Al2O3\u00a0 0.392\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 SiO2\u00a0 2.826
\nMgO\u00a00.005\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 B2O3\u00a0 0.541
\nCaO\u00a0 0.693<\/p>\n

Alumina:Silica ratio is\u00a0 1.00:7.21 Neutral:Acid ratio is\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1.00:3.03 Alk:Neut:Acid ratio is 1.00:0.93:2.83<\/p>\n

Expansion: 74.8 x 10e-7\u00a0per degree C Oxides causing abnormal expansion: \u00a0 B2O3<\/p>\n

Clear M4<\/span><\/strong>
\nKNaO\u00a0 0.336 Al2O3\u00a0 0.326\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 SiO2\u00a0 2.786
\nCaO\u00a00.658\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 B2O3\u00a0 0.545
\nMgO\u00a0 0.006<\/p>\n

Alumina:Silica ratio is\u00a0 1.00:8.55 Neutral:Acid ratio is\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1.00:3.21 Alk:Neut:Acid ratio is 1.00:0.87:2.80<\/p>\n

Expansion: 77.5 x 10e-7 per degree C Oxides causing abnormal expansion: \u00a0 B2O3<\/p>\n

M4 Less Alumina
\n<\/span><\/strong>KNaO\u00a0 0.337\u00a0\u00a0 Al2O3\u00a0 0.247\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 SiO2\u00a0 2.507
\nMgO 0.005\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 B2O3\u00a0 0.544
\nCaO\u00a0 0.658<\/p>\n

Alumina:Silica ratio is\u00a0 1.00:10.14 Neutral:Acid ratio is\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1.00:3.18 Alk:Neut:Acid ratio is 1.00:0.79:2.51<\/p>\n

Expansion: 80.5 x 10e-7 per degree C Oxides causing abnormal expansion: \u00a0 B2O3<\/p>\n

\"Glaze<\/a>
Left M4 less alumina version, Right M4 glaze test<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"Limit<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Limits<\/a>
Limit chart from GlazChem\u00a0of M4 Less Alumina test<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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