u/Educator1992

Hey everyone, I am very new to ceramics. I recently got a kiln from skutt a 614. I bought 04 witness cones to do a test fire. I basically followed what the manual said to do. I put the bottom shelf on 1 inch stilts and the next shelf on 2 inch stilts and placed one cone on the bottom shelf and one cone on the next shelf. Then let that run at 04 medium speed per the manual. Well come to the next day the cone on the second shelf bent pretty good but the cone on the bottom shelf only bent slightly. Can anyone on here explain why this happened? I tried googling it and using Grok and there wasn’t a whole lot of explanation other than the shelves being at different temperatures in the kiln. I understand that but I’m still not understanding in its entirety. Is it okay do I need to raise the bottoms shelf up more?

I need additional advice. My daughter is level 2 autistic. We have been on and off again potty training since she was 3. In previous years I don’t think she was ready developmentally. She’s is now 6 1/2 years old. She will go pee in the potty no fighting nothing(not telling us) but she we have her sit she will go. But poop is a whole other obstacle. I thought that if I took her iPad away and tv away it will help motivate her but she is still refusing. She says she’s scared. I sit in there with her, we bring toys and books. Turn off the lights sing songs. But nothing seems to be working. Sticker charts don’t work and neither do m&ms. We really do feel she is ready and if we can get her to poop in the potty a couple times we know we can get her out of diapers but she’s gotten use to them. I’ve done just underwear and she still soils them and won’t say anything to us. What should we do? Just stick with it? Should we get a smaller potty for her to sit on?

Test fire help

Potty training