Hello my lovelies, I have some (probably stupid) questions for you..... ::)
When you're annealing beads in a kiln, do they have to stay on the mandrel, ie. does your kiln need to be big enough to put mandrels in? Do you have to have a special kiln with a bead door? Or, if you have a top loading fusing kiln (I have a HotStart), do they need to go on some special sort of rack or anything? As you can probably tell, I'm not a lampworker!! ??? Help!!!!! (please! :-*)
My kiln's an old, rusty ceramic kiln, so I only batch anneal at the moment.
I cool in vermiculite, remove from mandrels, and *carefully* throw them into the kiln and bring the temp up real slow :)
HTH ??
They don't need a rack either as the temperature doesn't get hot enough for the beads to deform if placed on either kiln wash or fibre paper. I did used to keep a tiny space between each bead "just in case". Although that's really overkill.
I just put mine onto an old scrap of fibre blanket in the bottom of the kiln :)
xx
Great, thank you :)