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Suburban Underground Vadders
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The Home of the Porcelain God
We made our way to another building in the complex.
Almost all of the buildings are connected so that we didn’t have to go
outside to get to other parts of the plant.
We found many rows of what appeared to be injection
molding stations.
Here we find the toilet molds. Tubes would be connected
to the molds and fresh clay would be injected. This is the first stage of the
process.
We also found some sinks. These are dried but have not
been fired in a kiln yet. At this stage the pottery is brittle and delicate.
In between the injection molding stations we found a pile
of sink molds with 2 sinks each.
Off to the right in an enclosed area we found these.
Above each cone is a fan and probably a heater. These rooms were set up so
that the filled molds could be wheeled inside and dried. They would likely
sit here for more than a day. After that they would be sent elsewhere in the
plant where someone would scrape the rough spots where the clay was injected
to make the seams unnoticeable.
This was just outside of the drying room. Thermal and
moisture controls. They were tagged with a green auction number. At one time
shortly after the plant had closed they held an auction to sell off as much
of their equipment as they could that didn’t get re-used at their other
plants. It was about this time this early spring morning that the
sun started to warm everything. We started to hear what sounded like someone
walking around on the roof. We listened for some time and finally decided to
take a look just to be sure. |
