bulrush
06-13-2008, 11:14 AM
Ok. So I bought a ceramic filter element online to make my own water filter. When I opened it, it was white and looked just like unfinished, baked clay I used in high school, just with a fitting on the bottom. Can a person make their own element from clay? I don't mean that manufactured plasticene clay or anything, I mean real clay.
Is there something more to the process, or is it just unfinished baked clay?
I would imagine that attached to the bottom fitting would be a round perforated tube to serve as an infrastructure to hold the clay while it is soft. Oh wait, they couldn't put the plastic fitting in until after firing the clay.
Is there something more to the process, or is it just unfinished baked clay?
I would imagine that attached to the bottom fitting would be a round perforated tube to serve as an infrastructure to hold the clay while it is soft. Oh wait, they couldn't put the plastic fitting in until after firing the clay.