How To Fire Perlite Ceramics

Pour out one and a half parts masonry cement one and a half parts perlite two parts fire clay and two parts sand.

How to fire perlite ceramics.

You can see my little helpers runn. Our pizza oven build. Granular perlite can also be used as an aggregate material to improve drying properties in sculpture clay bodies reduce density or add texture. Note that this is not just any clay.

Pour a half part water into the center of the hole and slowly fold the dry mixture into the water until the. If have looked into diy refractories you have probably head of it. Making light weight refractory ceramic from perlite and clay pdf damon ogle jan 13 2003 christa roth and christoph messinger integrated food security programme mulanje malawi 2003 how to make a portable clay stove ifps malawi gtz probec hedon how to construct a kiln for clay stove firing christa roth ifps malawi gtz probec february 2003. Fireclay mortar traditionally has been made by adding fireclay to a regular cement mortar mix often with the addition of lime.

I use green stripe but any refractory clay would probably work. Step 5 create a hole in the center of the dry mixture. Refractory clay has a different chemistry than pottery clay. Thanks to everyone for posting your build videos it gave us the idea and inspiration for this build.

But many modern building codes require the use of calcium aluminate instead of cement to make refractory. This is a mineral material that is in gardening. Making light weight refractory ceramic from perlite and clay by damon ogle aprovecho research center jan. A video of how i made my refractory fire bricks.

Stir the dry mixture using a shovel until it is thoroughly mixed.