{"id":6124,"date":"2013-01-27T20:01:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T04:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/?p=6124"},"modified":"2023-02-22T14:36:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T22:36:25","slug":"one-more-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/27\/one-more-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"One More Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the previous posting I reported that I had been able to sinter small amounts of copper and Bronze XT<\/em> in combination with Low Shrinkage Steel XT<\/em>. Pushing the limits just a little bit further, I tried to fire bigger amounts without pre-firing.<\/p>\n

Remember the project “Overlay with Bronze XT<\/em>“<\/a>? I re-made it with Low-Shrinkage Steel XT<\/em>. Copper backing is 4 cards thick, each overlay is 4 cards thick.<\/p>\n

It worked.<\/p>\n

\"Overlay<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Two hours firing, no pre-firing, full sintering. Just like the old silver clay.<\/p>\n

And it worked again.<\/p>\n

\"Skyline<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And again.<\/p>\n

\"Room\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And again.<\/p>\n

\"Another<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

At one point I started to add a copper circle and a Bronze XT<\/em> circle to the batches. While the copper circle sintered some of the time, the Bronze XT<\/em> circle did not sinter at all. They sintered only when they were combined with Low-Shrinkage Steel XT<\/em> in a single piece.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The instruction manual is about to be updated. Except for the new discoveries discussed in the last three postings, other issues will be revisited, such as pre-firing on a stove top vs. pre-firing in the kiln, arranging pieces in the firing vessel, and ramping speed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the previous posting I reported that I had been able to sinter small amounts of copper and Bronze XT in combination with Low Shrinkage Steel XT. Pushing the limits just a little bit further, I tried to fire bigger amounts without pre-firing. Remember the project “Overlay with Bronze XT“? I re-made it with Low-Shrinkage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6124"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9398,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6124\/revisions\/9398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}