§terry Fallon is a
"plumber" by trade and an inventor at heart. He
owns and operates a construction company engaged
in the design, installation and maintenance of
high rise building sprinkler systems in South
Florida, USA.
In the last several years he has created a novel system for developing an automatic computer controlled reducing atmosphere in an electric kiln. He is beginning to commercialize products based on this technology.
Note: This is the avatar Terry uses on The Crystalline Glaze Forum - from a time when he actually used to throw pots.
He's the tall guy on the right in this photo and this photo. He is generally quite well kept but has been known to get down and dirty as you can see in this photo. He has a kind heart, is inquisitive as hell and continues to fascinate me as a brilliant tinkerer.
Over the last several years I've worked (played) with §terry to develop some of the components of The Fallonator - a fully automatic electric kiln with built in reduction capability.
Besides suggesting the name "Fallonator" my real input has been in the application of products made by my company ZIRCAR Ceramics, Inc. to the system. Note: I think he was going to go with a name like "The Reduction Queen" or "Po Boy's Gas Kiln".
I
have had the honor of getting one of the first
Fallonators (photo on the right) and the
pleasure of sorting out some of the things it
can do along with some other "crystal crazies" -
who are actually very good friends - over the
last several years.
This unit is truly "fully automatic". I am able to load it, press start, walk away and it goes through the whole ^11 reduction cycle by itself. My career is very demanding of my time and without its fully automatic capability I would not be able to fire reduction pieces as easily, or readily, as I can with The Fallonator.
Fully automatic electric reduction kiln.
Convert your electric kiln to include reduction firing.
To make high temp reduction life easier.
