Well, my friends, the news isn’t good.

After 14 hours of cooking, the kiln didn’t reach temperature and all the goodies are under fired.  Again.  ugh.

It appears that there are 2 possible reasons that my lovely kiln isn’t working correctly.
1) the heating coil is out in one section of the kiln
2) the thermo-coupler is bad
3) I screwed up the electrical when I pulled it out of the garage this last time.

No worries, I’ve got another kiln to use, it’s just much smaller so things will take longer to cook.  Well, that’s not true, it will take longer to fired the same amount of pieces – since it’s a third of the size of the other one.

However, I will be getting the experience of maintaining the kiln and giving it a good cleaning, fixing some of the bricks and coating it all (well) with wash.  It’s all good.  And I should be able to fire a couple of the items once more and not have any issues.  There are a couple of pieces that are done for – I don’t think I can save them.  We’ll see.  Tomorrow is a new day and you never know what dreams may come and give you new thoughts, new ideas and new inspiration.