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At around three-thirty on Saturday afternoon during Dayton on Tour, Robbie Zimmerman will attach a propane burner to what looks like an old garbage can and fire it up. Over the next half-hour, the temperature inside the can, which is actually a kiln, will reach nearly 2,000 degrees F.
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