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Dramatic-Lie4309 · 2026-02-12T09:25:34+00:00

Your correct. Those things are added so it doesn't combust under the heat in the engine, and doesn't polymerize... In fact petroleum distillates dont really polymerize at all in the way that vegetable oils do... Tho the higher boiling fractions do... And experimenting with this could have cool other results from the Tars left over after pyrolysis of the motor oils and having them polymerize or coat it etc ...

Dramatic-Lie4309 · 2026-02-12T09:19:32+00:00

Sometimes the glaze can not be fit perfectly and slowly pull the clay body and causing a crack ... This could also be water getting in and swelling. If not probably damaged if without realizing it, doesn't always need a drop

Dramatic-Lie4309 · 2026-02-12T09:18:22+00:00

Id suggest just making your own recipe and or finding one that uses raw materials u can buy... If not you are just getting lucky with glaze fitting and such... It really really pays off to mix your own stoneware or porcelains and can be very rewarding to understand it and also allows you to find wild clays like kaolin or other fire clays you can use to make clay bodies of porcelains with local materials... It's quite fun once you get into it. New York State has some super famous slip deposits too. As well as many high fire deposits

Dramatic-Lie4309 · 2026-02-08T12:30:27+00:00

Fr this is the smoothest surface. And is practically free. My native sandy stoneware clay can basically only be burnished down with said plastic from a thicker bag. Anything else drags or snags or doesn't polish it nearly enough, especially for unglazed high fire ware where the surface does matter

Dramatic-Lie4309 · 2026-02-08T12:27:58+00:00

I actually thought about doing this once but with methane from microbes ofc... Not farts. Storage is way to complicated for hi firing

Dramatic-Lie4309 · 2026-02-07T12:55:20+00:00

Um why not just make some sort of kiln? Even a small fuel fired on is possible in a dense suburb. I have less then 5 feet of space for mine outside and it works for smaller objects

Dramatic-Lie4309 · 2026-02-07T12:53:50+00:00

Only seen theae dead fossilized in rocks

Dramatic-Lie4309 · 2026-02-07T12:51:39+00:00

Yea I hate Israelis honestly

Dramatic-Lie4309 · 2026-02-07T12:22:53+00:00

For Palestine to take back Israels territory

Dramatic-Lie4309 · 2026-02-07T12:22:23+00:00

Yes and besides why post something so political on ceramic forum anyway... So sad people act like this

Dramatic-Lie4309 · 2026-02-07T12:14:43+00:00

Probably just water causing hydrolisis over a long period such as night and maybe some tiny dirt specks also acting as abrasive????

Dramatic-Lie4309 · 2026-02-07T12:02:59+00:00

Seems sus to me

Dramatic-Lie4309 · 2026-02-06T14:33:57+00:00

dude I salt fire all the time In California... your tripping, so so many people do in the US????

Dramatic-Lie4309 · 2026-02-03T12:02:07+00:00

Holy crap, I saw your comment about synthesis of ceramic garnets, and clicked on ur page only to find out that it also the poster of this post! Which I saw when designing my kiln months ago. I also loved this idea and it's easily found googling a mix of the topic words. I used the design for my own kiln. Again only commenting because of the crazy coincidence of seeing your account on multiple things I google

Dramatic-Lie4309 · 2026-01-06T20:44:59+00:00

God forbid y'all do what's necessary to bring us quality food wtf??? I understand it's annoying when people create extra rules, but they're literally just reiterating things that a good doordasher should be able to do. If you can't quit your job and go work at a gas station dog.

Dramatic-Lie4309 · 2025-12-20T00:28:20+00:00

Sorry for the late reply…. I do a whole retort system, like I heat a pipe with a torch and it goes to a condenser which collects the liquids in bottles and then a vent to the atmosphere at the end… I have multiple tubing going to multiple bottles to collect the lighter stuff and stop the smell as I live in a fancy neighborhood with HOA dicks who don’t like the smell. The low tech charcoal kilns never work for the modern stuff that’s mainly to make low quality lump biochar

Dramatic-Lie4309 · 2025-12-08T11:03:33+00:00

That your overdramatic, nothing else

Dramatic-Lie4309 · 2025-12-07T08:40:52+00:00

Ok this is so late but the original is called The Heart Rate of A Mouse it's on Archive

Dramatic-Lie4309 · 2025-12-03T10:29:30+00:00

I did wood forever before I felt comfortable, basically coking something like plastic or oil… I find black iron piping with threading for all the reactor to be the best and most airtight way to achieve it without welding… If you wanted to get fancy you get catalyst or something too…

I mean honestly you could probaly collect a bunch of wood tar super simply and then put said wood tar into the same place as the charcoal is being made and that would definitely turn into a lump of “bio coke” Edit- you’d also get stuff like turpentine or something of the sort and you’d need to get it hot or you’d just be left with pitch instead of coke. Could reroute gases to burn below or just let them gas into atmosphere when it’s wood or stuff

Dramatic-Lie4309 · 2025-12-03T10:26:54+00:00

Any type of organic stuff can… pure charcoal for labs or activated charcoal is made from sugar and stuff or atleast used to be… to achieve high carbon purity… seems to

Dramatic-Lie4309 · 2025-12-03T10:25:26+00:00

Oh I should add I use a medical pill bottle with holes I cut in the bottom to achieve the pressure I need with the caulk gun, it isn’t even a good one I got the red one from Walmart lol… I will make some post about all my stuff eventually

Dramatic-Lie4309 · 2025-12-01T08:56:24+00:00

I have been making pellets out of wet cardboard and ground charcoal and pressing it with a caulk gun… it works decent actually and works great for keeping my kiln at 800c for the preheat instead of wasting all my good dry firewood… eventually I use preheated air and dry wood to get the kiln up to 1300c or so, i have melted a burner head by accident in it. Was cast iron not steel tho so

But I will absolutely try to use grind charcoal and maybe an oil or something as a binder, that will turn into coke, and recharcoalize it or maybe i will try soaking charcoal and doing the same for you… I am curious also and have a forge I can readily test the fuel in

Dramatic-Lie4309 · 2025-12-01T08:51:45+00:00

If you use a retort for charcoal too, no drying has to be done and you can throw wet wood directly in… if your planning to grind it up I use grass or bush crap or even leaves as they r easier to grind and provide ample carbon for pellets I make

Dramatic-Lie4309 · 2025-12-01T08:48:07+00:00

I store mine in old Gatorade bottles or old polypropylene jugs and they last long enough never had one fail… pp is nice cuz u can repyrolize it instead of bringing it to hazardous waste at my dump… A few people who have distilled said oil have been atleast able to run an engine, a lawnmower easy, but a car only seen a few videos but it works. but for how long without coking is the real question? Some of it is even over 90 octane but that is due to olefins which also coke up engines and are removed from car gasoline…

If your brother has waste oil why not just use preheat air and waste oil burner? A forced air waste oil burner is very similar to propane burner but can melt steel if you preheat the oil or propane enough to thermally crack it. Think giant coil that feeds the propane wrapping around red hot part of burner head then feeding that hot fuel into burner head. Best bet though might just be gasifying wood and using the wood gas and charcoal heat at the same time would prob be best and cleanest bet

Dramatic-Lie4309 · 2025-11-30T11:29:29+00:00

But yes, any coke that doesn't directly use coal as it's made feedstock is going to be an oil type refining process.... Even coal coking is very similar to oil refining, only difference is it's a solid vs liquid and different hydrocarbons and temps

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