I have been researching small table top kilns for small annealing and heat treat jobs, I'm curious to hear of anyone's first hand experience with these type of Kilns. I bought a large top load ceramic Kiln but find it a bit big for most jobs and takes too much power and time to get to temp, also doesn't have a PID to control temp, also being top loading makes it ...... well less then ideal to open up at temp as well as loosing a lot of heat in the process so.....
I see Orville and Pee Wee have just purchase a Paragon and someone else mentioned using a Paragon kiln, I'll be looking forward to hearing about their results, also interested in the EvenHeat Kingpin models or any other similar models one might or should consider.
I would be looking to use a kiln of this type for annealing brass and heat treating simple O1 or W1 tool steels.
Thanks
Brian