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- Wed Jan 21, 2004 9:37 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Annealing Temps
- Replies: 18
- Views: 16971
I am as puzzled as Marty. Either I have pleased the gods and benefitted by their blessing of my glass, or a considerably faster schedule works. As to the controller, can you put a switch in to bypass it. It'd be like going from automatic to manual trans in a car. Might be tedious, but then you could...
- Tue Jan 20, 2004 2:36 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Circle Cutting
- Replies: 33
- Views: 25968
- Tue Jan 20, 2004 12:01 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Circle Cutting
- Replies: 33
- Views: 25968
- Mon Jan 19, 2004 11:33 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Thermocoule precision?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 26975
I've had my eye on one for a while that reads from minus 25 to 1500F. It is hard for me to justify getting one on the basis of need, since I am doing what I want in the kilns without one, but it would sure be a cool learning tool, and might be useful for bigger projects than I am doing now. I guess ...
- Mon Jan 19, 2004 11:28 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Lap grinders
- Replies: 14
- Views: 16169
- Mon Jan 19, 2004 11:22 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Circle Cutting
- Replies: 33
- Views: 25968
I've been pondering this, and I could tighten it up quite a bit. I'll use a sheet of float cut in half. Float for it's uniformity of internal stress, the same sheet so I know it is from an identical run. Next would be the cutting itself-The outside sheet would have to be cut outside to maximize the ...
- Mon Jan 19, 2004 10:43 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Lap grinders
- Replies: 14
- Views: 16169
- Mon Jan 19, 2004 3:57 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Circle Cutting
- Replies: 33
- Views: 25968
You have inspired me to do yet another test Brock. We have single digits in the forecast for the next few mornings, and I am going to put a couple of sheets outside while their identical twins bask in the comfort of my studio, then do identical cuts and see what happens. Stuff I worked with years ag...
- Mon Jan 19, 2004 3:53 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Lap grinders
- Replies: 14
- Views: 16169
- Mon Jan 19, 2004 3:38 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Circle Cutting
- Replies: 33
- Views: 25968
I don't think cold has anything to do with it. I used to store my glass in sub zero temps, haul it in, throw it on the bench, and it cut the same as the room temp stuff. I think the work surface theory is the best one. Did something get under the carpet to add a little hump? Or maybe the cold made y...
- Mon Jan 19, 2004 3:34 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Thermocoule precision?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 26975
Of course this would not work for enclosed castings, but anyone use optical pyrometers? They should be able to give a direct surface temperature measure of the glass. Only problems I can see is that you have to pop the lid to shoot a temp, and if the glass is glowing there is the issue of aim, the l...
- Mon Jan 19, 2004 1:51 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Tack Fusing on Irid Surface
- Replies: 18
- Views: 19192
I've been tack fusing spectrum irid to irid for many years, with no pop offs. I fire to a temp that gives a gently rounded edge to the tacked decorative elements, but still shows the irid well. Too hight and the irid is absorbed, too low and the edges are sharp, and the tack is poor. I have a line b...
- Sun Jan 18, 2004 9:55 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Sound , Frit and Crop Circles
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6470
Some stringed instrument makers use this technique to figure out where the dead spots of the instrument are. Where the particles collect is where there is no movement. This simple test reveals very complex acoustic patterns, since live or dead areas are the result of wave interaction throughout the ...
- Wed Jan 14, 2004 9:52 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Wanting high gloss finish top and bottom
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7485
Bruce-It can be very difficult to bend glass without any marks, the exception being very shallow contours with large pieces of glass, and ring forms. Windshield makers get around this by using positive and negative forms that give them the ability to bend at a much lower temp by mechanically manipul...
- Wed Jan 14, 2004 10:33 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Quieting an Air Compressor
- Replies: 18
- Views: 20989
- Tue Jan 13, 2004 9:58 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: vermiculite board as dams
- Replies: 9
- Views: 11537
- Mon Jan 12, 2004 2:40 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Hi Fire Question
- Replies: 21
- Views: 25148
- Mon Jan 12, 2004 2:26 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Vermiculite board as shelf?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 12197
Not sure how big or heavy your pieces are Barbara, but my experience with vermiculite is that it's too delicate for much handling. The one inch board I have is very friable, and would be useless for transport to and from the kiln. Perhaps there are better grades than what I got years ago. My favorit...
- Mon Jan 12, 2004 2:21 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Tauras ring saw
- Replies: 41
- Views: 38193
For me, I'd call my Taurus a poor mans water jet. I find it most useful for stained glass work, though am incorporting it more into kiln jobs. It is one of those tools that I did Ok without for 20 years, but find it opens up alot, both from an economic as well as design perspective. Brock, interesti...
- Fri Jan 09, 2004 12:27 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Cold Kiln
- Replies: 28
- Views: 26546
It was ten below here this morning, but my studio was a toasty 45 degrees when I came in. My two cents on this thread is in agreement with Berts, that the elements see the difference as negligible. Car headlights coming on at ten below and getting hotter than kiln elements don't fail more in the win...