Pottery Shorts Using Cones in a Kiln Sitter

Welcome to Pottery Shorts, brought to you by The Potter’s Round Table, the topic for this episode is Using Cones in a Kiln Sitter.

A kiln sitter requires the use of cones to fire a kiln. In this episode Phil Berneburg shares tips to help make sure the kiln sitter is properly loaded and how to reduce the failure rate from defective cones. Phil covers the steps in setting the cone in a kiln sitter, correct placement of the cones, and how to test and avoid defective cones.

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[ZinniaRAWR]

I was just looking for the answers to the small cone bending after watching your previous videos- so glad I found this one!

[jasminegugat]

Great video! Gave me all the information I needed, and even a visual example. I am more confident using my small cones in the kiln sitter now. Thank you!

[tendrfarmers]

What change in cone firing might we expect if we keep the small cones connected in the sitter? Specifically our cone 6 cones that come packaged in two connected, opposing direction pyramids.