You can learn a lot about kilns just by watching people make them. The more you know about how a kiln is made and the anatomy of a kiln, the easier it will be to operate and maintain a kiln.
This is one of the reasons Arnold from Paragon produced the Paragon factory tour videos. Here are some of the maintenance procedures that you will better understand after watching the videos: 
- Cementing firebricks. You will learn, for instance, that if you work fast, you do not need to wet the bricks with water before applying the cement. The firebrick department factory video shows how we get a very thin seam between the bricks.
- Arranging the wires in the switch box.
- Replacing a sidewall brick.
- Coating the firebricks with brick coating, which looks gray when first applied to the lid and seems to disappear after it has been fired.
- Replacing an element.
- Installing screws in the stainless steel kiln case.
- Replacing the firebrick walls and top on a square front-loading kiln.
- Replacing parts in the SC-series silver clay kilns.
- Crating a top-loading kiln, useful if you ever need to move.
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