I first started fusing with my little microwave kiln, got it maybe 20/25
years ago? (How long have microwaves been around?) any way, it was fun to
play with and i still have one for museum puposes but there was no control
and i do not recomend trying to learn on it. m

"Lauri Levanto" wrote in message
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David Coggins wrote:
"nJb" wrote in message
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Seems they were around some years back. Anybody know anything about
them?

Jack

I seem to remember some years back - maybe 10 or more - that I saw a
promotion at a conference for a method to fire pottery in a microwave
oven.
It turned out to be a refractory container coated inside with some
metallic
substance which could attain a chamber temperature of 1000 + degrees C
when
placed in a microwave oven on high. Only trouble was that the container
for
a domestic microwave was tiny and almost useless - you would need an
industrial strength and sized microwave to provide enough power to heat a
decent sized chamber, which would probably cost more than a kiln anyway.

I suspect the idea died a deserving death.

Dave


In addition to that,
what my friend have experimented
there is very little if any control of the temperature.
She said it had to make a pair of earrings identical.

One possible use might be PMC clay.
With that price for material, miniature size is a blessing.

-lauri