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A. Insight-liveCase StudiesA high-nepheline, zero-silica cone 8 silky matte glaze is cutlery marking and crazing. Why? I will show you how found a recipe on Facebook, assessed it, substituted my own materials, tested it, adjusted it. Now it is like a cone 10 dolomite matte. How I found a recipe on Facebook, substituted a frit for the Gerstley Borate and added the extra silica it needed to fight crazing. I got a fabulous cone 6 clear. Using Insight-live I will demonstrate the surprising amount of silica some cone 6 base glazes that appear OK will accept and still melt well. How to spot out-of-balance indicators in the chemistry of glazes that suggest susceptibility to scratching or cutlery marking. Raw lithium carbonate can be replaced with a lithium-containing frit if you can do the chemistry. And you can at insight-live.com. Use Insight-Live.com to do major surgery on a feldspar saturated cone 10R glaze recipe with multiple issues: blistering, pinholing, crazing, settling, dusting and possibly leaching! How ToInsight-live shows recipes in tall narrow panels. They open side-by-side right-ward. They remember the type of calculation last requested. So just opening multiple recipes automatically enables comparison. The test bars will measure fired porosity and shrinkage over a range of temperatures, drying shrinkage, LOI and pugged water content. They follow procedures defined in Insight-live.com. How to reference a picture from an external website like flickr.com from within a recipe in Insight-live A short annotated video of how to create an account at insight-live.com A short annotated video of how to sign-in to a personal account at insight-live.com How to import the Digitalfire Insight recipe database file (INSIGHTDATA.DB) and the pictures that attach to recipes therein Using help, your account, renewal and preferences pages, the managers and panels, recipes, materials, entering a recipe, chemistry, downloading desktop Insight. How to find them, duplicate them and develop them within your account at insight-live.com If your recipe is on the clipboard, this shows you how to import it into Insight-live and make adjustments after. Learn how to add a recipe, title it, add lines and change them, set lines to added status, enter notes and pictures and print a mix ticket An example of how to enter test results from your ceramic testing into recipes in your account at insight-live.com. How to take a picture using an iPhone, crop and resample it, save it, then upload it to a recipe. How to import data from desktop Insight, GlazeMaster, Matrix, GlazChem, HyperGlaze, Generic Spreadsheet CSV into your account at insight-live.com. How to add and override material data and how to do chemistry calculations in your account at insight-live.com. How to organize your recipes into a worksheet of recipe rows and material columns, save it as a CSV file and import into Insight-Live.com How TpA tour around the home page. Where to start. B. GlazesI will show you some secrets of making a base engobe (or slip) apply to leather hard terracotta ware in a thick, perfectly even layer. I will show you how to glaze a mug with a liner glaze inside and a colored one outside so that they meet in a perfect line at the rim. To do a drop-and-hold firing you must manually program your kiln controller. It is the secret to surfaces without pinholes and blisters. I will show you why people love/hate this material and how I substituted it for Ulexite to make a much easier-to-use glaze that fires just as good or better. Making 10 gram balls of your glaze and firing them on 2in by 2in tiles is a great way to evaluate their flow, surface and susceptibility to defects. I will show you why thixotropy is so important. Glazes that you have never been able to suspend or apply evenly will work beautifully. C. OtherD. Desktop Insight1. OverviewPart two of a complete tour. It includes using targets, setting calculation types, entering recipe notes and details, SQLite and a review the menus. Part one of a complete tour. The anatomy of the recipe window, how to open, edit and save recipes; the materials, oxides and supply oxide dialogs, the MDT. 3. LessonsLearn to how to download a recipe library from your account at Insight-live and open and explore it using desktop Insight Compare calcium carbonate (whiting) with other sources of CaO (dolomite, wollastonite, frit), learn to understand the chemistry differences between materials and then substitute wollastonite for whiting in a specific recipe. While comparing a real-world and theoretical feldspar learn to enter, edit, save, normalize recipes and the materials dialog. Glaze chemistry concepts. Learn to compare a target formula with the chemistry of a feldspar. See why it does not make a good glaze by itself and what materials need to be added to make it into a balanced glaze. Learn to do difficult formula to batch conversions. Learn mole%, finding frits by chemistry, Na2O sourcing, oxide oversupply, recipe line added status, overriding in the Supply dialog, when to compromise an exact match. Learn to add a native volcanic ash to the INSIGHT materials database (MDT) and then create a glaze from it maximizing its percentage. Learn to impose an LOI on a material and why this method is better than line blending. Learn to use a non-unity calculation to convert a formula into a batch recipe using theoretical and real-world materials. Retotal, round-off and make a side-by-side report. Learn to convert a glossy glaze into a matte by comparing its chemistry with a target matte formula. Alter the chemistry in such a way that the thermal expansion does not rise and it maintains good physical application and suspension properties. Learn what crazing is, how it is related to glaze chemistry, how INSIGHT calculates thermal expansion and how to substitute high expansion oxides (e.g. Na2O, K2O) with lower expansion ones (e.g. MgO, Li2O, B2O3). 4. MDTShows four different ways to add materials to the desktop Insight materials database (MDT) Do this completely outside of Insight, it knows how to read it at each startup. There are five ways to do it. Generate your MDT at digitalfire.com, copy and paste XML, type in the formula, enter an analysis as a recipe, handle the MDT as a CSV file in Excel. Case StudiesWollastonite is 50:50 CaO:SiO2. So why not just substitute 40 wollastonite for 20 calcium carbonate and 20 silica? Learn to substitute Nepheline Syenite for Soda Feldspar (and vice versa) using the KNaO checkbox to. You will see the benefit of in-recipe substitution calculation rather than making substitution rules. Learn the chemistry differences between cone 10 and 6 glazes and how to make a glaze melt at a lower temperature without introducing other problems like crazing. Learn to reformulate a glaze that is settling in the bucket. Al2O3 and KNaO are sourced by the feldspar, we will source them from kaolin and frits instead. How to use desktop Insight to substitute wollastonite for calcium carbonate (and vice versa) while maintaining the same SiO2 level. Create substitution rules. Use Desktop Insight to explore ways of calculating substitutes for Gerstley Borate in the popular Floating Blue cone 6 glaze recipe while maintaining or improving the other raw and fired properties of the glaze. F. MiscellaneousHow to fine-tune the thixotropy of a ceramic engobe for pottery Tony Hansen takes you through all the steps from opening the box and wedging the clay to taking the fired mug from the kiln. *Youtube Video, +MP4 Video, #ScreenCast, ^URL |
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