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- Fri Mar 26, 2004 2:26 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Technique for stenciling colored powders
- Replies: 14
- Views: 17292
- Tue Mar 23, 2004 1:33 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: glass memory?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9274
- Tue Mar 23, 2004 1:13 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: It's raining pins
- Replies: 9
- Views: 11051
I had an older top fire kiln start dropping pins all over my work (not a Paragon). Drove me crazy for quite a while. Put them back, a while later they would drop again. I didn't know about the glue, but eventually I took the lid off, put it on the table and pulled out all the pins. I reinserted them...
- Fri Mar 19, 2004 12:35 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Warm Glass Dictionary
- Replies: 43
- Views: 51452
thoughts on d-k KlyrFire is actually made as a medium for enamels and is only incidentally used as a glue. Flux - in soldering it has the same purpose as in melting glass, it lowers the melting temperature of the solder and allows it to flow. Dichroidic - I've never seen it spelled this way, only as...
- Fri Mar 19, 2004 12:02 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Warm Glass Dictionary
- Replies: 43
- Views: 51452
- Thu Mar 18, 2004 11:35 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Need help with a Skutt Kiln
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11612
I think they were making that one up to a few years ago. Probably sold new for maybe 600-700 dollars. Make sure the brick isn't crumbling and the element is solidly pinned in place with nothing looking like it's ready to fall out or has fallen out in the past. But I'm almost positive it should have ...
- Sat Mar 13, 2004 3:31 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Pigment of my imagination?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 36268
Re: Pigment of my imagination?
he went on to state that other glass companies, like bullseye and uroboros, tend to use a chemical means to make the ring mottles.[/quote]
I'm sure I have heard Bullseye say that their ring mottles are a result of a temperature treatment, and therefore disappear on reheating.
I'm sure I have heard Bullseye say that their ring mottles are a result of a temperature treatment, and therefore disappear on reheating.
- Thu Mar 11, 2004 1:14 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Pigment of my imagination?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 36268
clip: Sometimes I think that's why it's such a mystical color, it doesn't truly exist, it's an illusion. The Murex Snail Protection League's going to flame you for that. http://members.lycos.co.uk/Mollusks/kunst/haupt.html OK Ron, how do you do that? I'm puzzling over the reference and you come up ...
- Thu Mar 11, 2004 1:04 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: lbs. glass = sq.inch
- Replies: 17
- Views: 15021
- Thu Mar 11, 2004 12:56 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Fine/Thin white cut line on glass?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11035
- Tue Mar 09, 2004 1:35 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Cutting Spectrum Baroque - total frustration
- Replies: 27
- Views: 33374
Just one remark about breaking quickly rather than slowly. If the cut is tricky, or the piece very narrow, I will always breakout VERY slowly and gently, giving the glass time to follow the score, instead of taking its own course. And I do prefer a running plier for long narrow strips. (I like my Fl...
- Tue Mar 09, 2004 1:18 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Pigment of my imagination?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 36268
Everyone wants shades of purple that don't exist. If you stop and think about it, not only is it tricky to find the right metals to tint glass, but these shades are at the end of the visual spectrum. We tend to think of color in a circle, like the color wheel. You know: Blue, Bluepurple, Redpurple, ...
- Tue Mar 09, 2004 1:03 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Hi Fire Question
- Replies: 21
- Views: 23766
OK, now I'm confused. Welders glasses are usually green. Aren't amber filters generally for ultraviolet, not infrared? I use No. 3 welders glasses for looking in the kiln (at least they are on the table beside my kiln and really I do use them when it's not just a quick peek), not my lampworkers glas...
- Mon Mar 01, 2004 2:33 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: float fusing question
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5450
- Mon Mar 01, 2004 2:29 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Duraboard firing?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9759
The rigidizer is a ceramic product that has to be fired to achieve its properties. I think 1350F. Then you must kilnwash it or the glass will stick. I use the duraboard without the rigidizer. Glass doesn't stick, a little fiber comes off each time but washes right off the glass. The texture is quite...
- Mon Mar 01, 2004 2:22 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: tempering textured float
- Replies: 13
- Views: 12143
The remark about uneven thicknesses at the edges would explain a lot of my problems. Keeping the edge thickness the same would undoubtedly be a benefit. Two of the tempering plants here won't even touch anything with texture, even textured sheet glass. They don't want to have to clean up the mess. A...
- Mon Mar 01, 2004 2:14 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: kugler color
- Replies: 14
- Views: 17212
- Fri Feb 27, 2004 1:07 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: tempering textured float
- Replies: 13
- Views: 12143
- Fri Feb 27, 2004 1:00 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: sandblasting
- Replies: 25
- Views: 28549
Well, my 15 HP compressor puts out 41 cfm. The nice industrial 5 HP compressor that I used to use (a real 5 HP, not the hobby kind), only put out 17 cfm. That was really borderline to power a 100 lb pressure pot. So of course we went to overkill on the upgrade, but it hardly ever turns on, even thou...
- Fri Feb 27, 2004 12:48 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: WORKING WITH COPPER
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8874