Vitreous (porcelain US) enamelling a hood

@presscall , What you demonstrated is important and pioneering work, John! You've got everyone thinking along these lines now, and I'm sure we'll see novel applications and refinements from you and others as time goes on. Thanks again for sharing!

 

@phaedrus42 You’re very kind. Thank you.

John

 

@presscall
The torch method is working decently, I suppose.
I'd try that for preliminary attempts. As the same reasoning for welding, no one would automate it merely for an infrequent occasion.
@phaedrus42
Great info. I might just find a small ready-made kiln if the price's ok.
There are a fair number of those type S or K thermocouples that're in use at my workplace. The same goes for those industrial stand-alone controllers which have those PID features for ramp/soak heating and cooling profiles. For instance, we have those Honeywell UDC2000 and 3000 series digital controller units around here that could be wired and programmed for such an application. But they're fairly costly for some home use.