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Charlie, Was the steel plate welded to your frame? If so that is your problem. I have 1/8" steel plate under a layer of K23 IFB and it is fine. The plate simply sits on a fame structure of box steel. There is a 3/8" gap all around the steel edge to allow for expansion with heating and cool...

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...

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...

According to Graham Stone's book on schedules you can take a single layer of 1/8" glass at roughly 1800 DPH ramping up but as soon as you go to two 1/8" sheets that maximum ramp slows to 430 DPH. I've taken BE up as fast as 500 to 550 DPH without a problem but I would not go much faster th...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Your COLDWORKING Jackie

I'm here in Overgaard, but I'll be right down to help you.........assuming of course you are dressed as in the calendar

Holly Pasta Fazoli!!!!!!!!!!!!! Incredible Steve. What was that line in that move??

"We're not worthy!!!!!"


Super Steve!

Intersting you made this post Amy, I just posted a comment on Jackies post a little along these lines. To answer you question directly, I'm like you, I think my best ideas come after I've put a little thought into something, say to give it a direction and then "put it on a shelf" for a lit...

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 ...

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...

Hey Brock, do you remember that quiet, demure sweet lady who took one of the B&A classes here? She was very very nice and looked so conservative - wore her hair in a bun every day and was so soft spoken? Then we were outside on the patio having a drink after class and she matter of factly said,...

4" Vitrified where you can get them, 60, 150, 300, 500.
Some of the higher grits may only be available in a resin bonded. Vitrified costs more but lasts longer.

Phil

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...

Paul,

Lots of us fusies here in Phoenix and Arizona.

I'm in Phoenix when I'm not up here in the White Mtns. There is Jackie Beckman, Cindy Jackson, Charlie Spitzer to name a few. Check out the board index. Send me a PM and we can see if we can hook up.

Phil

OMG.....That is fantastic. Just go's to show there really arn't limits on glass, just the one's we preceive that there must be. Really outstanding work.

Phil

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...