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Has anybody made anything of the spun glass fiber from home insulation yet?

If you are figuring out your exposure for the first time and wasting a bunch of film, why not waste it right? Set up your screen and then expose it in steps by covering part of the screen and moving the cover over every so often (measure the times). This way you get one screen that you can't really ...

Nah, she's way better than that guy!

Great Pictures! It looks like compatibility problems. Is the contamination from kiln wash likely? Don't you have a clear landing pad like Revjerry suggests? I believe that things show up after (or during!) sandblasting because to a certain degree, the stresses on the surface of the glass can act as ...

Do you have this trouble w/ all color combos? Is it devit? Have you invested in a cold shop?

Cruiser Quit now! Sell anything you've already bought. Take the money and run off to a beach somewhere. Lay in the sun (protected) with someone you love. Glass is a dead end. It's just melting making and cold work. equipment breaking glass breaking and people who want to know if that's the best you ...

Hey
I got some sheets 8 1/2" x 11" on ebay. cheap.

Charlie,
why not look at your glass in a room with no other source of illumination. Then you could sit in a dark little room for hours and at least have a legitimate excuse when you came out. (Craftweb has better emoticons.)
j.

Ha ha Just kidding. I know it sucks; I've been there. Recently, unfortunately. Clean up- maybe you can coldwork the glass and save the piece, maybe not. 1600 is pretty hot- maybe try a lower temp longer. The colder you can figure out, the easier it is on your mold. Turn off the kiln- unplug it or sh...

Sorry I made a little mistake in my description of the process. It is light, polarizing film, glass, your glasses. You have to polarize the light, run it through the glass, then look through your lenses. The contours of the glass shouldn't be a big deal. You have to run the light through two filters...

Are you a) shining light through the glass? b) holding a polarizing film between the glass and your sunglasses? c) are you spinning the film until it is 90 degrees off from your glasses? If you are you should see a shadowy cross. Any rainbow types of color are stress (compare against a clear plastic...

You may also try this:
http://www.sprucepinebatch.com/GloGlass.html
It's primarily for blowers but see if you can find anyone there with a clue as to its suitability to your purposes...

You can make your own tongs. Stainless salad tongs, High temp gasket material (like for an automobile engine- the red goo), and old high temp glove scraps or some other crap like that.
j.

Bert, The stainless tubing might have worked better w/o the holes. Run air through the interior and just pull the heat through the metal because of the cool air on the interior. This way though, the cool air wouldn't interact directly with the kiln environment. Just an idea. A little time w/ a welde...

hell yes.

'Tis better to have washed and lost than never to have washed at all.

Isofrax is good stuff but not cheap. Cheap is available from Tom at Hi-Temp Refractories, or Clarks in Virginia. Clarks is listed in the back of Henery Halem's Glass Notes. If you don't have it, just go get it you don't have to re-invent the wheel. And while your at it, Dudley Gibbersons Glassblower...

One cool thing to do is to stack three pieces together and tape around the edge. Then use a spring type punch on the edge of the middle piece so that it shatters. Then fuse them all together! Amaze your friends!

Charlie,
You might try reinforcing the wall by backing it up with a hard brick or you could build a flying butress!

Hey these are a couple of quotes that I have on the doors by the furnace in the studio- things I think about while I work: #1. Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind. (from Zen and Motorcycle maintainence) #2. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting diffe...