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2016-08-10, 10:03pm
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Guess it's that time again huh
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2016-08-10, 10:19pm
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I actually use a mead roller as I'm blowing into the tube. It takes practice to hold the roller, turn the hollow mandrel, and blow into the tube all at the same time
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2016-08-11, 11:56am
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Norma, what is a mead roller? Lydia
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2016-08-11, 1:19pm
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Lol...mead roller= bead roller
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2016-08-11, 4:44pm
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Oh, thanks 😄. Don't you just love all those auto corrects when you type something and the computer changes your spelling to something it thinks is better.
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2016-08-30, 3:30pm
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What is your favorite size hollow mandrel? I made one on one I had sitting around and it was fun. Want to buy a handful or so of the mandrels but wondered what the best size and cheapest source are. Thanks.
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2016-09-03, 1:40pm
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This is a mistake (back side too thin) but this is totally doable. Have a kiln with a few annealing right now! Much more fun than my last year's glaskolben.
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2016-09-04, 8:04am
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Looks good, cute too.
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2016-09-04, 12:00pm
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It's round! You're more than halfway there.
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2016-09-04, 12:02pm
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dragonharper
Yes they should be annealed,and yes you can batch anneal.
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I have been lamp working for what, 6 years now and have never batch annealed but I can see how it would be handy this time. Can someone tell me how they would go about a batch anneal of these suckers? I can just see spending weeks making enough and having them all break because I do something stupid.
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2016-09-04, 12:04pm
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and would I have to cool them in a fiber blanket? If so I will have to buy one because mine is in my kiln is chunks.
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2016-09-04, 2:45pm
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I'd try the batch annealing, but definitely using the blanket or annealing beads. It would be OK except you have glass around a stainless tube with different rates of contraction. If they were just blown and nipped off a blow tube, you could probably get away with just setting them on the workbench, all the glass would be thin enough to cool at a comparatively equal rate.
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2016-09-05, 12:34pm
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Yeah that scares me. I will probably keep firing the kiln as I torch. I don't want to have them weaker than glass balls already are.
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