Does anybody have a Uhlig or Cromartie Kiln?

[Lush!]

I have a chap coming for a lesson this week and he mentioned that he's looking for help with annealing - he has both a Uhlig enamelling kiln and a top-loading Cromartie kiln.

Just thought I'd ask if anybody has any experience of batch annealing in either of these so I can sound like I know what I'm talking about  give him some advice

[Les]

I used to batch anneal in an old cromartie kiln

Never had any problems with it

[Lush!]

Do you have a schedule Les?

[Les]

I did'nt have a posh controller.... just a power input dial and a soak timer..... I just set the power input to 1.5 and set it to turn off as soon as it hit temperature. As it's brick lined, it needs no soak time as such, or a ramp down... it cools slowly enough once it's switched off.

HTH ?
:O)

[Lush!]

Cheers me dear, I've made a note so I'll pass that on to him.

[Les]

No Probs... just gimme a yell if he has any problems :O)