Was the insurance still cheaper than generators afterwards?
Actually, oven? Wouldn't that just need some UPSs for the gas-control electronics?
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Tue 12 Jul 2011, 17:37, 4 replies)

Akshally...
if it's anything like the glass kilns I know about, the heating elements are electrical. It's the only way to control the temperature accurately enough (and we're talking to within a degree or so over a good few hundred at least).
(regularfry, Tue 12 Jul 2011, 21:56, closed)

A generator may not be able to supply the sort of load an electric oven requires in the amount of time it would take to spin up, and a UPS capable of bridging the gap would be seriously expensive (if you can even dump a large inductive load on an UPS, which I'd be surprised at).
( Alex Save a Tree, Eat a Beaver!, Wed 13 Jul 2011, 0:22, closed)

plus
there'd likely be trace combustion residues from gas. OK for pizza, but probably not so good for precision components.
(The Incredible Sulk Finally remembered his password on, Wed 13 Jul 2011, 5:05, closed)

I know next to nothing about what was involved (either from a "how it works" or "how much it costs" point of view) - my rudimentary knowledge stretched to knowing about working with metal and just equated chucking glass in the oven with chucking metal in the oven.

As far as I was aware, there were no generators (I did wonder why) - Can't say that the glass machining process ever captivated me enough to find out - I just assumed it was a corner that was cut somewhere along the line.
(Parsnip No, I'm Spartacus, Wed 13 Jul 2011, 9:59, closed)