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- Mon Mar 22, 2004 9:59 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Bouncing kiln floor
- Replies: 21
- Views: 24529
- Mon Mar 22, 2004 10:38 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: new sandblasting Question.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 14734
Re: new sandblasting Question.
I just got my sandblaster up and running. Am using 180 grit silicon carbide, and noticed that sometimes where the sand hits the target surface, there is a glow somewhat like a dim light bulb. Could this be localized heating or would it be some kind of electrical discharge? Just qurious. Thanks. Jim...
- Sat Mar 20, 2004 1:10 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Criticism
- Replies: 65
- Views: 83731
AVLucky, Valid point. My BEST professors and teachers were the ones who pushed me out of my comfort zone to a level I thought on my own I could not reach. Anyone want to see what can be accomplished, go see the movie Miracle. I knew that Herb Brooks pushed those guys on that team to win that gold me...
- Sat Mar 20, 2004 12:59 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Glass Shatters 3 times
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6154
- Fri Mar 19, 2004 10:47 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Criticism
- Replies: 65
- Views: 83731
Good topic Brock. Here's my 2 cents. My thoughts on criticism or the lack thereof on this board I believe stem from three things, one controllable and the other somewhat quite nebulous and a third requires experience. The controlled aspect of criticism stems a little from what Jim mentioned in that ...
- Fri Mar 19, 2004 8:42 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Homemade Etching Brew
- Replies: 11
- Views: 16915
Just a little tid bit about the sugar acid mixture. The sugar is usually dextrose and is only added as a buffer to affect the way the flourosilic crystals form on the glass surface. Instead of the crystals forming in a sharper crystaline shape, they become more cobblestone like. It leaves the surfa...
- Thu Mar 18, 2004 8:23 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: stainless steel
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6218
You can prefire it but if you are using fiberpaper it really doesn't make any difference. You need to be sure and use 2 layers of fiberpaper with rings. The inside layer needs to cover the seams of the outside layer and the seams should never line up. The fiberpaper should fit snug also. Has the SS ...
- Thu Mar 18, 2004 11:47 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Weird temp issues
- Replies: 18
- Views: 24503
If everything was equal to what you've done in the past, ie schedule, final temp, hold, dams and size of load then I would suspect one of two things either your thermocouple may be degrading (reading incorrect temps in this case it would read higher that it actually is) or your elements are degradin...
- Tue Mar 16, 2004 5:54 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Homemade Etching Brew
- Replies: 11
- Views: 16915
Do yourself a big favor and get a sandblasting setup used or something. Any acid that etches glass is just not worth messing around with ESPECIALLY HF. I worked in the semiconductor industry that uses that and everyone I know that worked with it absolutely hates that stuff. Very dangerous from every...
- Tue Mar 16, 2004 3:21 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Inspiration
- Replies: 119
- Views: 165988
- Mon Mar 15, 2004 7:33 pm
- Forum: Photos and Stuff
- Topic: Steve Immerman!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 21015
- Mon Mar 15, 2004 7:25 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: How do you see new work
- Replies: 22
- Views: 34483
- Mon Mar 15, 2004 7:05 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Inspiration
- Replies: 119
- Views: 165988
Hmm......This thread has taken a directional discussion again of technique vs art vs ownership but seems to me Jackie started it originally on asking where does our inspiration come from. Maybe to take things back to there I'll put in my 2cents on a current commission. I was asked to make a pair of ...
- Mon Mar 15, 2004 3:55 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: 12 Key Orton Digital W/Pyro or Bartlett 12 Key Digital ???
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11853
To confuse you a little more.....For the same reason Stuart like's Bartlett controllers I like Orton. Orton is on my Paragon GL24 and when I built my own kiln I put the same controller mostly because I didn't want to learn a different controller. Both are pretty simple to use. On the 4 vs 6 programs...
- Mon Mar 15, 2004 8:54 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Shocking.....
- Replies: 17
- Views: 21786
- Sat Mar 13, 2004 7:52 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: What wheels for Felisatti
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11151
- Sat Mar 13, 2004 5:09 pm
- Forum: Photos and Stuff
- Topic: Kids' work.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6717
Barbara, How very cool!! I'm doing something similar with an elementry school in Phoenix. I've got 105 students so I'm kind of limiting the project to a much narrower scope than what you did. Did you have the students actually cutting glass :shock: I've been thinking I'm going to avoid that. I'm jus...
- Fri Mar 12, 2004 6:01 pm
- Forum: Business Topics
- Topic: California fuser traveling to Phoenix--any fusers there?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5082
- Fri Mar 12, 2004 11:15 am
- Forum: Photos and Stuff
- Topic: My most recent
- Replies: 33
- Views: 41734
- Fri Mar 12, 2004 10:10 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: breakthrough rigidizer news
- Replies: 38
- Views: 40926
Bert, Sounds cool but a couple of questions, if Spectrum sticks at 1600 will Bullseye? What about lower temps like 1500, will they stick there too or not. It sounds like a dream for float work but if BE and Spectrum stick I'll still have to kiln wash but it sounds like a cheaper solution that workin...