Paragon Kiln Kilns Art Clay PMC Ceramic Glass SC-2B

The price includes the recommended shelf kit, the legally-necessary safety switch, and UK delivery.

Paragon kilns are used for making jewellery, annealing glass beads, sintering precious metal clays such as Aida Art Clay and Mitsubishi PMC, melting silver, casting glass, fusing dichroic glass, firing ceramics, pottery, stoneware, raku, stained glass, lampwork, sagging, slumping, china painting, dolls, enamelling, dentistry, laboratory testing, and heat treating.

We are featuring only a few of the Paragon Kilns available, if you cannot see one that suits your purpose, or you need more information do not hesitate to contact us.

The SC-2B is the same specification as the SC-2 other than it has a glass-bead annealing door: the main door opens normally but includes an outward-opening letter-box door, 165mm x 64mm.  

SC kilns are the popular choice for working with Art Clay and PMC at home, in school, or in a small business, successfully combining a high temperature, short firing time, and convenient size, at a low price. They're all four-sided, front-loading kilns, with built-in, easy-to-use, ramp-hold, Sentry Xpress 3-key digital programmers.

The Paragon SC-2 is ideal for Art Clay, PMC, jewellery, low-fire ceramics, china painting, enamelling, dichroic glass, glass bead annealing, glass fusing, sagging, and slumping. It's a 1095°C, four-sided, front-loading kiln, with a built-in, easy-to-use, ramp-hold, Sentry Xpress 3-key digital programmer.
The UK kiln is rated at 230V 1745W, so can use a regular mains socket. It's small enough to use in your home, school, craft workshop, or jewellery studio, as it only weighs about 16Kg.
The outer steel case measures 336mm x 311mm x 400mm, and is slotted for air circulation: so it keeps cool. The door opens 180°, so you won't burn your hand taking pieces out. And there's a top vent for lost-wax casting and other processes that may release fumes.
The ceramic-fibre firing chamber, enclosed in an inner steel case, measures 199mm x 204mm x 145mm internally, and heats from two sides and the back, with the fast-firing elements safely embedded in the fibre.
Uniquely, our SC-2 kiln has a sheathed thermocouple which prevents the possible corrosion, and eventual failure, of the bi-metallic tip: ocassionally caused by pollutants produced whilst heating some types of glass.
The electronic display prompts for firing rate, temperature, and hold time, making it easy to set up and re-use accurate drying, heating, and cooling sequences. To learn more about the programmer, go to the start page, using the link below the menu bar, then programmers.

The recommended furniture kit for the SC2 and SC3 consists of one 139mm x 139mm x 6mm ceramic fibre shelf for Art Clay and PMC: not china painting, enamels or glass.

If you want to do china painting, enamelling, or glass work, you'll need a thicker shelf and four shelf posts. These come as an extra kit: one 178mm x 178mm x 15mm cordierite shelf and four 25mm x 25mm x 25mm posts. Cordierite is a magnesium aluminium silicate that resists thermal distortion and fracture.
Depending on the sizes of your pieces and the number of pieces you want to fire, three shelves can be stacked to make better use of your time: so you may want more than one furniture kit.