Im about to try an experiment involving Crushed up float glass with
prefused frit onto it. I was going to lay some of my home made chunk frit
with tempered glass anyone can say that this would work or not ? I cant
see why it wouldn't work, tempered is Float right ? I know that there are different manuf. of float with diff COE's (slightly) but can anyone confirm this Experiment before I maybe waste a LOAD. I was planning on firing on thursday or friday.
Thanks.
Frit and Temperd glass compatible ?
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Re: Frit and Temperd glass compatible ?
It's a crap shoot. It could work or not. Test. I have float glasses that are compatible and ones that are not.Tyler Frisby wrote:Im about to try an experiment involving Crushed up float glass with
prefused frit onto it. I was going to lay some of my home made chunk frit
with tempered glass anyone can say that this would work or not ? I cant
see why it wouldn't work, tempered is Float right ? I know that there are different manuf. of float with diff COE's (slightly) but can anyone confirm this Experiment before I maybe waste a LOAD. I was planning on firing on thursday or friday.
Thanks.
If you had 2 sheets of tempered glass from the same batch, you could break one and fuse it to the other with reasonable chance of success. You would be assuming that the 2 sheets came from the same source.
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I just saw some 2" square float glass tiles with lots of multi-colored frit on the bottom. Had to investigate - seems the manufacturer is grinding very small frit and GLUEING it on the back! Then they cover the back of the tile where the frit is with sticky paper that looks like white contact paper. Guess once the paper is removed and the tile is applied to the mastic, the color frit isn't going anywhere! Oh yeah, and they wanted $20 sq/ft.