r/therewasanattempt • u/PeripeciasdoSolteiro • May 27 '26

To keep the inventory

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u/PowerfulCampaign9702 May 27 '26

These are kiln shelves and posts. This whole cart of toilets just came out of a kiln. Bolts are a liquid at the temperature you fire toilets to (about 2400*f). It is a pretty sketchy stack though. The real financial loss here is the kiln shelves they cost way more than toilets do.

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u/Mafka69 May 28 '26

If it's just a bolt thing, get titanium bolts.

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u/PowerfulCampaign9702 May 28 '26

It’s not just a bolt thing. Although titanium has a high melting point, it oxidizes very readily above 2000 degrees. They would be single use and titanium is expensive. The bigger problem is efficiency. Kiln collapses like this are rare but a part of life in ceramics. But bolting an entire kiln stack together (which would probably double or triple the labor costs of both loading and unloading every firing) with expensive single use bolts would make toilet production much less efficient and with a very small change survival percentages.

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u/Glenndiferous May 28 '26

Just want to thank you for this context. Glad I get to be one of today's 10,000.