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Getting enamel off

  • Trish White
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    • 114 posts
    July 13, 2011 8:14 AM EDT
    Your not dreaming it - look at NOtebook #1-General Information - Scroll down to my post on removing enamel on metal with cream of tartar recipe- I don't recommend it on anything larger than a small jewelry piece, as my studio partner and I tried it on a tile he hated and when we took it out of the kiln and dropped it into the ice bucket there was a huge eruption all over us and the adjacent studio and it was not a pleasant site- not to mention a few burns- You live and learn!
  • David Wendelken
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    October 1, 2011 5:16 PM EDT
    Trish,  I don't see a Notebook #1, General Information menu item...

    Can you double check the public visibility of the link, or just post the link for the visually clueless like me?
  • Trish White
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    • 114 posts
    October 1, 2011 5:50 PM EDT
    ayeeeyayyayeeeeee!! you are right grasshopper - I lost it a few weeks back when I was fooling around trying to be smarter than the average geek - I cannot get the info back so i have put in a new subtab - I will never touch a tab again!!!
  • David Wendelken
    • 5 posts
    October 1, 2011 7:52 PM EDT
    I still can't find the cream of tartar recipe...   

    Has it gone the way of the Lost Chord?
  • Trish White
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    • 114 posts
    October 1, 2011 8:35 PM EDT
    Thats because I lost all the info - I do have the cream of tartar recipe somewhere in my notes in my studio and will dig them out and post them again - I will say when I used the recipe on a large piece - it exploded in the ice water and recked havoc all over my walls - so its truly meant for just small pieces -
  • Lillian Jones
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    July 12, 2011 11:13 AM EDT

    It is one thing to get the enamel on, but often I need to get it off.  I know you can:

    a) grind it with a diamond burr

    b) soak it forever in Armor-etch

    c) find some hydroflouric acid (not me, buddy)

    but I read somewhere you can make a mixture of ?  cream of tartar? baking soda?  I can't remember, but it was stuff I might reasonably have around the house, and fire it on the surface and quench it in water, and Voila!  the enamel will come off along with the magic mixture. I am unsure of the ingredients now.

     

    Has anyone ever read this or tried it?  Or did I dream it?

     

    I have a piece right now of Metal clay that I want to clean off, and am looking for ideas.

     

    Lillian