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2006-04-14, 9:11am
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Thanks Lynn! Do you ever have an issue with getting the streaks of yellow in yours?
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2006-04-14, 9:19am
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Thanks Lynn! Do you ever have an issue with getting the streaks of yellow in yours?
Eric
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Not in the beads. I did a bit in a heart,but i was playing with shorts, so I'm not exactly sure of the colors i was using.
Here are beads
and here is the heart...it has some other stuff in it too. I think what i was using for yellow wasn't just yellow 
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2006-04-14, 9:31am
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Oooh, nice color Lynn!
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2006-04-15, 4:29am
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Thanks Eric. I do pull my DP down pretty thin, but probably get too much on. I'm having a problem with my disk beads popping off the bead release when I do the tweezer twist. The bead release doesn't break, but the bead isn't anchored either. Then I have to melt the whole thing in more, losing my nice disk shape.
I'm wondering if I'm annealing long enough. I just re-read my DP notes and see that he anneals at 1100 F for 4 hours. I'm only annealing for 2 hours. Perhaps that's the problem. And maybe that's why my earlier DP beads seemed better - I just recently started garaging at around 1000 F. Prior to that, I was garaging at annealing temps, so most of my beads were getting annealed much longer.
Lynn - at what temp and for how long are you annealing? Your colors are fantastic!
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2006-04-15, 7:43am
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Thanks Tanya! I've been garaging about 1000-1050, annealing about 1000-1100 for 3-4 hours, with a 4-5 minute spike at 1150-1250. I don't have a digital pyrometer, and no programs, so a lot of it is hum a few bars and fake it 
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2006-04-15, 7:51am
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Thanks for the info. I guess it's time to start annealing longer. You don't have a digital pyrometer? You are dedicated!
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2006-04-15, 7:57am
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Thanks for the info. I guess it's time to start annealing longer. You don't have a digital pyrometer? You are dedicated!
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I figured i could check it every once and a while for the cost of the programable ones. You can buy a lot of glass for the price of the controller 
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2006-04-15, 1:37pm
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I figured i could check it every once and a while for the cost of the programable ones. You can buy a lot of glass for the price of the controller |
The price of the controller is nothing compared to losing a days work due to a temp spike. I know I would not work with out a digital control. I get my colors the right color and I know how fast it is cooling down, no guess work.
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2006-04-15, 1:52pm
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That's a very good point! I've been lucky enough to not have had it happen to me, which is probably why i didn't think of it.
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2006-04-23, 11:24am
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BEEN TRYIN' and TRYIN'!! NUBE NEEDS HELP!
Thanks for posting all this great info!!  I SO LOVE BORO and for the life of me...haven't been able to produce any of this lovely stuff!! Anyone out there willing to take a chance and loan a stranger Doug's video? I'll send my "first born son" as collateral...come to think of it...you could just keep the kid....he's been nothing but a PIMA (Pain In My Ass) since he was 8!! (Now 25!!LOL)
Please PM me if you are willing to risk it!! I promise to "Pay it Forward!"
Thanks!!
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