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- Sun Mar 10, 2024 2:51 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Glass carving gun (abrasive blasting)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6044
Re: Glass carving gun (abrasive blasting)
Thank you so much, Brad! I'll see if I can make contact. :D Bingo! After much searching with no luck I found another site that seems to be related and shows long-lasting tips. I haven't made actual contact yet as it's the weekend but I'll contact the vendor and report back in case it helps someone ...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 1:46 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Glass carving gun (abrasive blasting)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6044
Re: Glass carving gun (abrasive blasting)
Thank you for those suggestions, Kevin. It seems that Butch doesn't have her on-line store anymore. I checked the others, too. Although small tips (1/16" and 3/32") are available I couldn't find any info about the gun they were made for, Empire. There are local suppliers with small ceramic...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 4:40 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Large Kiln Shelves, redux
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5212
Re: Large Kiln Shelves, redux
Hi Buttercup! Unfortunately, my local supplier only stocks the Unifrax HD boards in 24" x 36". To special order a larger board was ridiculously expensive and I'd be stuck with massive quantities of HD board! #-o P.S. You didn't mention your winning lottery ticket numbers! I'm all ears! Tr...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:04 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Glass carving gun (abrasive blasting)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6044
Re: Glass carving gun (abrasive blasting)
Thank you so much, Brad! I'll see if I can make contact. ![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:31 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Large Kiln Shelves, redux
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5212
Re: Large Kiln Shelves, redux
How do you plan to lift it? ![Anxious 8-[](./images/smilies/eusa_shifty.gif)
Edit: Oops, missed the 'light-as-a-feather' reference!
I like the HD fibre board. Do they come big enough for your project?
![Anxious 8-[](./images/smilies/eusa_shifty.gif)
Edit: Oops, missed the 'light-as-a-feather' reference!
I like the HD fibre board. Do they come big enough for your project?
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 1:26 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Glass carving gun (abrasive blasting)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6044
Glass carving gun (abrasive blasting)
I'm hoping someone can help me out with a brand name and specs. for a good sand carving gun. The excellent one I had in Canada didn't make it here. Possibly Border Security thought it was a weapon and we have really strict rules about those. Or maybe it just got nicked, anyway, I don't have it and w...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 8:13 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Red Devil DP2 Diamond points
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3274
Re: Red Devil DP2 Diamond points
Hi, Don!
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 2:53 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Red Devil DP2 Diamond points
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3274
Re: Red Devil DP2 Diamond points
I have received confirmation from Fletcher-Terry that their #2 1/2 Diamond points will fit the DP 2 Point driver.
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 11:54 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Red Devil DP2 Diamond points
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3274
Red Devil DP2 Diamond points
I have an elderly Red Devil DP 2 Point setter (no, not the red flower). It's a little hand-operated tool for firing diamond-shaped fasteners into window frames or picture frames to secure the glass in place.Great tool. I no longer have the box the points came in so don't know what size to order. The...
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 1:34 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Alternative to Thinfire
- Replies: 22
- Views: 137146
Re: Alternative to Thinfire
@theanimallover, I use the 'powder' because it's easy, lasts multiple firings and I've not had it stick to the glass. That said, I mainly paint and fire. If it did happen to stick, I can't imagine under what scenario, it should brush or wash off (not into the house drains). I will definitely report ...
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 12:22 am
- Forum: Newcomer Forum
- Topic: Smooshing Weights
- Replies: 7
- Views: 47945
Re: Smooshing Weights
Thanks very much, Don.
- Thu Nov 30, 2023 1:58 am
- Forum: Newcomer Forum
- Topic: Smooshing Weights
- Replies: 7
- Views: 47945
Re: Smooshing Weights
Don, you wrote:
Brad's PDF downloadable here about smooshing is helpful. I'm having fun with mini-kiln sized pieces so far.
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Don, or Brad, where can I find this PDF please?
Brad's PDF downloadable here about smooshing is helpful. I'm having fun with mini-kiln sized pieces so far.
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Don, or Brad, where can I find this PDF please?
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 9:11 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Researching large kilns
- Replies: 8
- Views: 20509
Re: Researching large kilns
You're welcome!
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 8:57 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Alternative to Thinfire
- Replies: 22
- Views: 137146
Re: Alternative to Thinfire
By the way, so there's no confusion, I use the alumina hydrate as is, in dry powder form. Put a 1/4" (+/-) layer on the kiln shelf and flatten it with a folded newspaper. ( What's that, you ask, no don't use the Guardian site on your laptop.) I use a piece of float glass, sometimes a rolling pi...
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 8:39 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Researching large kilns
- Replies: 8
- Views: 20509
Re: Researching large kilns
Hi Bonnie, If you don't find what you want ready-made do you have access to the resources to build one? This thread contains pictures of a lid rebuild to replace the elements for a top-fired kiln, the rest is just a fibre-lined brick box held together with angle-iron rods and bolts. It was built for...
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 7:43 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Amended Challenge
- Replies: 88
- Views: 2189882
Re: Amended Challenge
Thanks very much for the response, Brad.
- Thu Nov 23, 2023 2:24 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Amended Challenge
- Replies: 88
- Views: 2189882
Re: Amended Challenge
Just stumbled across this 2004 thread. Does anyone know where I could find a link to the photos that, presumably, were posted on the WGB? There are a lot of names I recognize and would love to see their challenge work but can't read every post from 2004 on.
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 9:26 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Alternative to Thinfire
- Replies: 22
- Views: 137146
Re: Alternative to Thinfire
theanimallover wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 6:03 am Here's one for both of us Buttercup![]()
Kevin, but isn't silica different from regular dust?
- Sun Nov 19, 2023 9:58 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Alternative to Thinfire
- Replies: 22
- Views: 137146
Re: Alternative to Thinfire
I didn't take offense! (Tried to post a smiley face but a string of code published instead)theanimallover wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2023 10:18 am I sounded cantankerous there, wasn't meant to be, just trying to work it out!
Thanks for your help.
Glad to help.
- Sat Nov 18, 2023 9:30 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Alternative to Thinfire
- Replies: 22
- Views: 137146
Re: Alternative to Thinfire
Hi theanimallover. Yep 'twas I. I 'fess up to that idiotic mistake.
Here's a thread from 2014:
viewtopic.php?p=350851&hilit=alumina+hydroxide#p350851
Good luck.
Here's a thread from 2014:
viewtopic.php?p=350851&hilit=alumina+hydroxide#p350851
Good luck.