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Just hit 50 hours on my torch without a single cracked gather
Honestly, I've been working with a Carlisle CC for about six months now and always had trouble with thermal shock early on. Tbh, I slowed my heating way down and kept my color rod in the kiln longer, and it just clicked. Anyone have a trick for keeping your punty seals clean when you're doing a lot of pulls?
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fiona_carr265mo ago
Ngl, "yank it and hope for the best" is basically my whole studio motto. My punty seals look like I glued them with campfire marshmallows and regret. Maybe I should try the beeswax thing instead of just angrily chiseling the gunk off later.
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quinnm774mo ago
Wait, you guys are using beeswax? I've just been suffering for years. My seals always leave that nasty crust and I spend forever grinding it down. So you just dip the punty tip in wax before you pick up? That's genius, I'm trying that tomorrow. My bench looks like a glitter bomb went off from all the tiny glass chips I'm constantly picking out of my seals.
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torres.blair5mo ago
That punty seal gunk is the worst. A tiny bit of beeswax on the end of your punty rod before you seal helps a ton (it just burns off clean). Also, giving the seal a quick flash in a cooler part of the flame right before you pop it off can make it release cleaner.
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sarahp345mo ago
Okay the beeswax trick is a game changer. I always thought adding anything to the punty would just make more gunk, so I avoided it. But if it burns off clean that makes total sense. I'm gonna try that next time for sure. The flash in a cooler flame part is also smart, I usually just yank it and hope for the best.
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