Also it turns to a slurry if you get it really wet and let the bentonite settle and pour off the excess water.
I’ve heard it’s available at pottery stores, but there’s something about doing it myself from kitty litter that just feels good.
Interesting. I had tried refining some white clay like that once but the amount of patience required to wait for it to settle was beyond my level at the time.
The trick is to forget about it and go and do something else for the day, after a few hours you go back and pour off the clear water on top. I was doing this until I found some sacks of roughly powdered bentonite as a stock feed supplement for dirt cheap (literally). It still has lumps in it but they go after the first mulling or so. https://forums.thehomefoundry.org/i...tonite-stock-feed-supplement.2080/#post-43562
Bruce, what is the mechanism of the kitty litter grinder? Sliding weight? Just curious. I'd rather buy it powdered from my pottery supply store along with graded sand from the other supply store three blocks away...
I’ve just got some random pieces of 2” round stock banging around in there. I can make about 5 pounds of finely powdered bentonite in about 10 minutes or so.
