02-08-2018, 09:28 AM
We understand Jan. We couldn't sleep last night. Its like June in Alaska here in Arizona with that new glow emanating out of the East. Perhaps you could tinker on the kiln at night when we're all at work here. 
We learned a little lesson about heat and magnetism ourselves. We make the vises used with the ME110 edge tester and press a rare earth (neodymium) magnet into the vise base. The first few runs we had the vise bases powder coated and then pressed the magnets in. We decided to get smart and press the magnets in to the base and then have the whole works, magnet and all, powder coated. Not smart. The 450F degrees generated during the powder coating process will apparently remove about 90% of the "stick" from rare earth magnets. As they say "live and learn".
We can't wait until you're fully up and running with your kiln project Jan. We have a feeling that we're all going to learn a great deal as a result of your projects and experiments with heat treating and tempering.
We learned a little lesson about heat and magnetism ourselves. We make the vises used with the ME110 edge tester and press a rare earth (neodymium) magnet into the vise base. The first few runs we had the vise bases powder coated and then pressed the magnets in. We decided to get smart and press the magnets in to the base and then have the whole works, magnet and all, powder coated. Not smart. The 450F degrees generated during the powder coating process will apparently remove about 90% of the "stick" from rare earth magnets. As they say "live and learn".
We can't wait until you're fully up and running with your kiln project Jan. We have a feeling that we're all going to learn a great deal as a result of your projects and experiments with heat treating and tempering.