float glass???

[alaskagirl]

what exactly is float glass?

My dh came home from playing with a boro friend with a box full of tubes and shorts and has invaded my 104 haven.. So while watching I learned that he was working on the tubes instead of a mandrel. I so happen to have a ton of long clear glass tubes that I use for water/drum sampling and brought a couple home to tinker with. I know they aren't boro, but don't know exactly what it is. I played last night and tried to stick some boro to it, no such luck, popped right off. So I added a couple dabs of transparent 104 and it spun right in. I dropped it in the kiln to see what would happen and whala, it came out. Any ideas/thoughts?

[InspirationToolworks]

My understanding is that float glass is plain old flat soda lime glass, aka window glass, that was cast floating on a bed of liquid metal. That's how they get it flat.

If a tube is referred to as float glass, they probably mean soda lime glass.

But, I could be wrong :)

-Jeff

[alaskagirl]

is it compatible with anything that you know of?

[Kim V]

If I'm not mistaken, float glass has a COE in the mid 80's. CRLoo does have some colored float compatible shards.

[alaskagirl]

thanks Kim.. I will check it out

[Kevan]

Yeah, from what I understand it's window glass and it's not compatible with any of the glass most glass artists use.

It's pretty fascinating how it's made.