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2013-11-18, 12:02pm
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A little help please....
Hello, I have question. Any help would be appreciated. Below is my very first attempt at using boro following a tutorial of course. I'm hooked and another victim of the dark side. I forgot to heat his tail up and squish it in to secure it and it popped off. Can I re-introduce his butt to the flame without it exploding like soft glass does? He's been annealed and I'm not sure if that makes a difference or not. Thanks
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2013-11-18, 1:22pm
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Yep. Shouldn't be a problem at all. Heat it up in the kiln, pull him out, attach the tail, then stick him back into the kiln. Try to keep the flame off the other fins and anything else sticking out if you can. Those will be the highest stress areas.
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2013-11-18, 1:55pm
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Originally Posted by Cosmo
Yep. Shouldn't be a problem at all. Heat it up in the kiln, pull him out, attach the tail, then stick him back into the kiln. Try to keep the flame off the other fins and anything else sticking out if you can. Those will be the highest stress areas.
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Thanks so much. One more reason to love boro!
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2013-11-18, 2:11pm
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Also, heat the turtle body where you are going to attach the tail to. Any attachment or joint is a potential weak spot. If you have the body and the tail heated up and then heat them together when you attach so the glass flows together it will be much stronger.
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2013-11-18, 2:18pm
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kinda torching....
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Looks good so far! Try melting everything in a little better next time, some spots around the shell look more like a cold seal rather than a permanent weld.
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2013-11-18, 3:05pm
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Looks good so far! Try melting everything in a little better next time, some spots around the shell look more like a cold seal rather than a permanent weld.
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Thank you for that info. You are right. When I was cutting them a couple popped off and I had to hunt them down and attach them again.
I know that I'm looking at the glow of the glass and assuming it will melt together like soft glass at the same level of orange glow. Not true! Bright orange boro is still stiff! So that's what I need to remember going forward.
Thanks so much!
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2013-11-18, 3:08pm
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Originally Posted by Otter's Flame
Also, heat the turtle body where you are going to attach the tail to. Any attachment or joint is a potential weak spot. If you have the body and the tail heated up and then heat them together when you attach so the glass flows together it will be much stronger.
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Great! Will do! Thank you so much for that.
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