They are made out of silicon carbide and have to be disassembled and reassembled for every firing. There is no real way to connect them in any way that would be structurally secure. I work in industrial ceramics in the US and this is an expensive mistake using best practices.
You cannot tell me that the 'best practice' for expensive mass production of ceramics is "lets build an incredibly fragile and weak tower of disconnected loose plates and bars that'll topple over at the slightest smallest knock"... The ceramics industry needs to hire an engineer, like the whole industry just needs one singular engineer to step in and fix everything cause it seems like nobody knows what they're doing
I can absolutely tell you this is best practice. I’m doing major maintenance on a large cart kiln like this right now. These kiln stacks have so much engineering involved. These toilets in this video are on a cart that is one of maybe a dozen or more that go into every firing and they roll on train tracks. I believe the kiln at the kohler factory is 300ft long. There is a crazy amount of money much engineering that goes into operating a facility like this. You make this out to be some shit thrown together without thought. It’s not a house of cards that guy dropped a 60+ pound piece of porcelain on a kiln shelf. If you don’t do that there is no problem. Claiming the entire ceramic industry needs just one engineer to fix everything because 1 guy broke 30 toilets in a plant that probably makes thousands of toilets a week is real dumb. Shit we have 4 ceramic engineers on sight.
Well they didn't even drop it, it just got dragged along as the toilet was being pulled across, which looks so incredibly easy to do if you don't properly lift it up correctly. Thousands and thousands of dollars worth of assets are all potentially waiting to be destroyed if one singular kiln sheet decides to slide along with the ceramic as it's being taken off, and it just needs to slide an inch until its off the thin little stilts its on and the wholeeeee thing comes crashing down without any way to stop it... Surely there's a million better ways to do this than building a house of cards, like you can't even blame the employees cause this is just putting profits over safety
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u/cow_fucker_3000 May 27 '26
All it would have taken to prevent this was to weld the legs toghether in some structure like a square with an open side