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Old 05-01-2018, 11:57 PM
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Originally Posted by aeppel_cpm
The wine industry uses bentonite as a fining agent to aid haze settling. It's available in a number of forms. KWK is cheap and grey. Champagne makers use forms purified to a white color.

I'd never heard of that usage! Interesting.....
I'm going to try the contaminated stuff first, and go from there. It's about 50 cents a pound, so I can't argue with the cost of trying it.


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Originally Posted by tbzep
Estes nozzles seem to be better when the mottled grey clay is used. I've had issues with the nozzles made of the solid white clay. I've even photographed fairly severely vectored exhaust due to erosion.

Any suggestions where I might be able to acquire mottled clay?


Someone suggested that we try adding grog to the clay, also. We haven not been able to test this yet.
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