Cress Mfg. Co

Vent Systems

ACHIEVE BREAKTHROUGH COLORS with your Cress kiln Discover how good clean uncontaminated colors can be. Achieve pure, more natural colors with the new Cress Patented clean-air unit.

This system exhausts kiln fumes separately from the top, middle, and bottom of the kiln to prevent cross contamination of colors so they look their very best. It also keeps fumes out of your kiln room by venting them outside.

The exhaust fan automatically waits until the kiln turns on, then goes off when the firing is complete. When cooling, the fan turns back on at 1000ºF automatically and off at 140ºF for safe cooling to protect your pieces. This gives you the strongest properly annealed ware in the fastest possible time. Standard metal 4” dryer ducting is all that is required for the exhaust.

Kiln Vent Instructions:

1. Line up the plug on the top of the fan box with the bottom of the control panel. Plug in the fan box.
2. Hold the fan in place while gently clamping both the left and right clamps. Do not twist the fan during the clamping process. The plug is very delicate and will bend and/or break off if twisted.
3. Attach your aluminum tubing to the fan box.
4. The fan will operate when the kiln begins the firing process, and will stop when the firing process is finished, it will operate again between 1000° F and 130°F, to aid with cool down then it will turn off. At this point you can unload your kiln.