ITC Coatings for Electric Kilns.
I heard so many good things when ITC was first gaining popularity -Mel Jacobson, Nils Lou… all respectable and experienced people, mind you. But even then, the amount of work required to engage the positive aspects of ITC sounded like a sprint through hell.
Since that time, there have been too many horror stories. The only long-term successes I’ve heard of were when ITC was applied to each brick at the factory -by experts… and even those I haven’t heard about recently, so who knows what the kilns look like now?
Tom Coleman once said to me that there was just no information gathered over a long enough time frame to warrant all the excitement, and he’s heard many complaints as well.
ITC may have merits when applied and cured exactly right… but it sounds like it’s very difficult to do it “exactly right”. So, “Oh, look -it protects the kiln”… turns into: “oh… look -it’s flaked off and/or caused electrical arcs to, *whoa* -burn holes in the softbrick…!?!”
Uh-uh. No good.
I welcome responses attempting to educate me further on this, but from what I’ve read and heard (here is a forum thread with some recent testimonies), I’m not real eager to try it myself.