BE Kiln Wash

Susan Wright · Post by **Susan Wright** » Wed Apr 23, 2003 8:48 am

I opened up a sack of unnamed kilnwash. It turns a pinky purple when mixed with pinpoints of purple in it. Is this the Bulleseye kilnwash?

I have been able with my old kiln wash (old Duncan 400, I think) to get many firings with one 6-8 coat application, usually don't go over 1490. WIth this new wash I had sticking on the second firing. Is this normal?

I hate washing shelves and I have the old thin fire and not a big fan of it either. Really miss my old wash if this recoating every fire is the norm.

Susan W

Tony Smith · Post by **Tony Smith** » Wed Apr 23, 2003 9:00 am

My experience is that the kilnwash starts to break down after the second full fuse firing. I've cheated the BE kilnwash along and gotten 4 full fuse firings out of it, but with some sticking. The Hotline kilnwash was about the same.

Tony

Brock · Post by **Brock** » Wed Apr 23, 2003 9:38 am

It totally depends on how hot you go, and what type of glass is against the shelf. I get MANY firings out of Bullseye kiln wash by using a black base blank, and never going above 1450. Brock

Susan Wright · Post by **Susan Wright** » Thu Apr 24, 2003 9:25 am

I'll try dropping back to 1450. The latest fuse stuck to the backs at one fuse. It was a bullseye denim blue color. I was trying to stay with my fusings at 1480 so that I had a standard for setting the Sunshine paints.

Susan W

gone · Post by **gone** » Thu Apr 24, 2003 12:26 pm

Sounds like you had Hotline, which is more purple than the BE pink. In my experience, the BE holds up much better in multiple firings. The Hotline seems finer, but the BE leaves a shinier back. I do like hotline for molds though, leaves less texture.

Els

Susan Wright · Post by **Susan Wright** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 6:39 am

Thanks, I bet it is Hotline since I remember seeing a hotline box awhile back. Steve bought some stuff and I didn't pay attention at the time. I dumped this stuff into a tupperwear cannister seveal years ago and just uncovered it when I cleaned out a basement bay. I actually thought it was bead release and gave some to a new beader to try and then found a box of bead release that was supposed to do double duty but when I tried it it was to rough texture.

I did get it to act ok yesterday. I think I had tried this stuff 7 or so years ago and didn't like it thus the buried tupperwear and bought all the Duncan I could get then, just ran out this year.

WHen I reorder I'll get BE and see how I like it. Evedryone seems to like it.

Susan W