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| Prior to the actual application, porcelain enamel slip need to be prepared in
accordance with the application requirements, such as fineness, set and specific
gravity. The traditional enamel preparation process ("milling") consists of the following seven sequential steps :
Below some thumbnails of various enamel preparation equipment, such as ball mills, sieves, storage tanks. Please click on the thumbnails to enlarge the pictures. |
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| Nowadays there are also so-called ready-to-use and ready-to-mix
enamels available.
These enamels are already weighted & mixed in the appropriated quantities. Ready-to-use enamels are supplied complete with water, so those enamels can in theory be used immediately. Ready-to-mix enamels require just adding water & mixing prior to use. The benefits of RTU / RTM enamels are :
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| Milling Addition | Function |
| Aerosil | for set-up |
| Aluminium oxide | matting agent and to increase heat resistance of ground coat |
| Aluminium hydroxide | equivalent to aluminium oxide |
| Aluminium powder | increase heat resistance in ground coat |
| Antimony trioxide | increase adherence of ground coat |
| Barium chloride | for set-up in cover coat |
| Barium carbonate | for set-up in cover coat |
| Bentonite | for set-up |
| Borax | for set-up in ground coat |
| Boric acid | for set-up |
| Cadmium oxide | to stabilise Cd-Se red enamels |
| Clay | provide bubble structure |
| Cupric chloride | for self lustre enamel 1118 |
| EK-1000 | for continuous clean enamel |
| Feldspar | for ground coat |
| Gumst | increase filmstrength |
| Magnesium chloride | for set-up cover coat |
| Magnesium nitrate | to increase suspension and to prevent fishscales |
| Opacifier UV | opacifier |
| Potash | for set-up |
| Potassium choride | for set-up cover coat |
| Potassium nitrate | oxidizing agent for aluminium enamels |
| Quartz | to increase firing range and matting agent |
| Silicic acid | for set-up |
| Silver sand | for heat resistant ground coat |
| Soda ash | for set-up in ground coat |
| Sodium aluminate | for set-up in cover coat |
| Sodium nitrite | for set-up in ground coat |
| Sodium pyrophosphate | to decrease set-up |
| Sodium silico fluoride | for set-up cover coat |
| Tinoxide | opacifier |
| Titanium dioxide | opacifier |
| Trisodium phosphate | to prevent rusting in cast iron ground coat |
| Urea | to prevent hairlines in cover coat |
| Zirconite | opacifier |
| Zircon oxide | opacifier |
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