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Maintenance and care
Watch out
!
For safety reasons the electric power plug has to
be pulled or the isolator switch turned off, as
appropriate before all maintenance work.
To guarantee safe use the electrical installation has to be
checked every four years by a specialist. Otherwise
maintenance of your
Kittec
-X-LINE
is restricted to
regular cleaning. Sweep the kiln and afterwards clean
the grooves in which the heating elements sit with a
vacuum cleaner. Once used the heating elements get
very brittle and break easily, so they should not be
touched with the vacuum cleaning pipe.
Should glaze make contact with the insulation bricks, it
should be removed with a suitable tool, e.g. a spatula.
With further firings the glaze would damage the
brickwork more. After each firing check the firing
chamber for damage by accidental glaze spillage or runs.
If more than 2 cm of the brick is eroded, the area of
brickwork should be repaired.
•
First make the damaged spot rectangular
•
Tidily shape a new piece insulating brick
•
Clean the damaged area with a vacuum cleaner and
•
put in the replacement piece with kiln mortar
Any spare parts and repairs mentioned are available
from
Kittec
or can be carried out by your service
engineer.
Advice
Hairline cracks in insulating bricks are a result of
high temperatures, are quite normal and will not
affect the operating efficiency of your kiln.
