Pictures from Wales

Here's a nice waterfall........








And a nice church in Chester......

Kiln ready to roll!

Here it is, it is finally running more or less smoothly.......

The kiln we're re-starting!

This is the kiln from 1983 we're trying to startup, many things have to be repaired, but we did 2 simple testfirings without air/oxygen and this more or less went fine.
We have to replace many heating elements and some thermocouples though.......Here you see it from the side.





And here you see it from the "loading side". The big pipe in front is feeding the cooling air during cooldown.








And here is a view on the controlpanel, this is more or less still ok, it was built by us in 2001. Only have to upgrade the cpu and communication cards.....

But this evening the 24VDC/30A power supply broke down. Ordered one straight away from RS and hopefully it is arriving in the factory tomorrow.........I'll keep you posted.

Trip to Wrexham UK

So, we're working in Wrexham now. It is a nice town, and the hotel is also very nice.
Got to repair many things on the old kiln before it will run though, tomorrow we will try to heat up the 1st time.

Trip to Wrexham next week

Here's the hotel they booked for me, looks nice......






There's also a catholic cathedral in this city: St. Giles.

Gearing up to the trip to Wrexham next week

Next week I will go to Wrexham UK for re-commissioning an old kiln. It has a more or less modern control system however, built by us in 2001. So that is not too bad.
I'm more worried about the status of the kiln however........
Here's a view on the VME computer system with I/O cards.