Fw: sodium silicate/Vince Pitelka
Dannon Rhudy
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I'm forwarding this from Vince, who cannot access clayart right now:
>anti-freeze. Now, the reason I wanted this stuff was to make some terra-sig
>>and the recipe calls for 1/4 of 1% sodium silicate , but since I can only
>>order this stuff in liquid form how do I measure it? Vince,help here if
>you
>>can--.....do I use
>>teaspoons to measure it??
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>Pamala -
>Do just like the directions say. 1/4 of 1% sodium silicate. It comes as a
>liquid, and that is how you weigh it. The combination of sodium silicate
>and soda ash (1/4 of 1% each) works best for terra sig. I have never found
>another deflocculant or combination of deflocculants which work better. And
>ANY ceramics supplier worth a damn will have sodium silicate. If they
>don't, then I suggest you patronize a better supplier.
>Best wishes -
>- Vince
>
>Vince Pitelka
>Appalachian Center for Crafts
>Tennessee Tech University
>vpit...@dekalb.net
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