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Frit and Temperd glass compatible ?
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 11:39 pm
by Tyler Frisby
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.
Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 10:37 am
by charlie
no, no one can state this because all floats are not the same. if you're using all glass from the same sheet, it will work. if you have different sheets, there's no guarantee at all. do a test with your actual glasses first.
Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 10:44 am
by Tony Serviente
Charlie's right, but you may get away with it. Some big differences in incompatibility may be tolerated if the pieces are small enough, and frit is pretty small. Would be worth a test on a square foot before commiting to a project.
Re: Frit and Temperd glass compatible ?
Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 12:25 pm
by Bert Weiss
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.
It's a crap shoot. It could work or not. Test. I have float glasses that are compatible and ones that are not.
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.
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 7:27 pm
by Tyler Frisby
It worked I slumped it over a Stainless Vase former :0
Vrrrr nice !
Thanks
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 3:34 pm
by Bebe
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.