when all was said and done i pugged about 200 pounds of clay... thankfully my arm didn't fall off.
... I love seeing all this freshly plugged clay, makes me want to get back to throwing pots!
Friday, December 9, 2011
the giant fun factory machine
While the bisque kiln was firing and before we started to glaze, I felt it would be a good time to pug many months of two potter's clay scraps. When I turned the pugmill on it made a horrible sound... I quickly turned it off. Jeff heard the noise and said he hoped it just needed grease.
Seagrove Hardware had lithium grease and in no time I was back to work. Luckily, grease was all it needed. She's an old Bluebird pugmill and I was a little worried!
when all was said and done i pugged about 200 pounds of clay... thankfully my arm didn't fall off.
... I love seeing all this freshly plugged clay, makes me want to get back to throwing pots!
when all was said and done i pugged about 200 pounds of clay... thankfully my arm didn't fall off.
... I love seeing all this freshly plugged clay, makes me want to get back to throwing pots!
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Lithium grease, cool; How do you keep it staying fresh and soft, wrap it up real well?
ReplyDeleteHi Linda, I filled two large rubbermaid totes (that i keep near my wheel), covered them with dryer cleaner plastic and put the lid on and the pile behind the pug mill gets wrapped in a double layer of plastic. Some potters like to let it sit and age but I use the recycled clay right away.
ReplyDeleteSometimes I could do with a pugmill.
ReplyDeleteOOOOOHHHH! A pugmill What I've always wanted.
ReplyDeleteMy word verification is 'presess' as in 'presess pugmill'.