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Post by MrP on Apr 25, 2020 12:16:20 GMT -5
adrian65 Thank you for asking Tommy to fix the pictures on this thread and thanks Tommy for doing it. What a pleasure to go back through this project. Adrian your work is FANTASTIC!!!!!!..............MrP
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Post by MrP on Mar 11, 2020 15:15:41 GMT -5
I read something that was claiming that for the deaths in China, 50% had high blood pressure. That's pretty bad odds.
Just got back from taking husband in for labs before seeing his PC on Monday. No pandemonium there, only a couple people in the waiting room. The gal behind the front desk reiterated what I've been hearing all along. Covid 18 is not nearly as bad as the common flu. That is good to hear but what did they say about COVID-19? ...........................MrP
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Post by MrP on Feb 28, 2020 8:32:39 GMT -5
knave I have basically this same kiln. Mine is a Jen-Kin. This is a great kiln because it has heat in the top, which is needed for glass fire polishing. It also has a digital controller, made by Orton, same as this one, also needed for glass fusing. Ceramic kilns just do not work well for glass. I also have a 24-12 Jen-Ken with a Orton AutoFire 2000 Controller which I can hook up to a computer.....................MrP
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Post by MrP on Feb 28, 2020 8:15:48 GMT -5
knave I Have not used one but did some checking on them and not worth the money. I think jamesp tried one. ....................MrP
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Post by MrP on Feb 27, 2020 15:31:37 GMT -5
TheRock How old are the tires. I never wanted tires older then 6-7 years old on my Class A Pusher. Many say no more then 5 years old even if always covered. Part of the reason is sun and ther other part is they set so long without the rubber being flexed..........................MrP
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Post by MrP on Feb 27, 2020 15:22:01 GMT -5
Thanks Chuck. The new EBAY 35,000 rpm/$65 'dental' machine may solve the messy holes Chuck. Just tried it today with some cheapo longer 2mm shaft diamond bits that wobble a bit. so process would be: Tumble to polish first. Then drill hole, then do a quicky follow up with a bevel bit makes a nice enough final hole. The 8000 rpm drill press does the bevel operation in 2 seconds at a lower 2000 rpm. So there will be 2 drilling machines running on a mini production line. One for hole, one for bevel. The worst holes are the tumble chipped holes. The vibe chips the sharp hole shoulders in a bad way. Holes in tougher agates don't chip so bad, but the holes in glass chips so easily. Even when the biggest tumble is under 15 grams the holes chip in the vibe. Target weight for pendants is 13 to 21 grams. jamesp I will bet that if you do a quick bevel before tumble it will not chip.....................MrP
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Post by MrP on Feb 24, 2020 12:19:00 GMT -5
jamesp I bought my drill used off of craigslist. I was given the name of a person who had a ultrasonic drill and it turned out she had just sold it the week before. I talked to her about the cost of the drill and using it. I think she had paid $3000 for it and sold it for $1200 or $1500. Wasn't worth that kind of money to me so I kept looking and found one very cheap on craigslist. Turned out it was junk but only gave $75 so no big deal. Not too long after that the one I have now showed up on craigslist for $1400, month or so later it was $900. Month or so later $800 so I called to go look at it. He could not get it to drill right so people who showed up did not buy it. I offered. I think, $250 but had to end up paying $275. Turned out it was the one I had called the other person on a year before. I almost gave up on learning to use it because there is a huge learning curve to it. There was not much info on the internet on how to use one. The person who bought it new said that when it is working right you will love it but if it is not working right you will wish you had never seen it. She was right! I found this one Drill for $1600. Not sure how the $600 one you found, compares too the one I have but, many times you get what you pay for. Keep in mind you will need more drill cones or you will always be soldering new drill tips on. That is another problem, silver soldering the tips on. They have to be straight and a very good solder job. The cone has to be for the machine you have because it has to have the right shape and length to get the waves at the drill tip. My drill was bought new at my drill . I have not contacted them for 3-4 years so am not sure if Bill is still there. I bought my silver solder and drill tips from him. Had to buy a few hundred tips at a time but they were very cheap at that time. Good Luck...................MrP
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Post by MrP on Feb 24, 2020 9:17:02 GMT -5
Ultrasonic drill is the way to go. Just finished drilling 1.5mm holes in 250-300 pair of glass earrings. I cut the glass from left over scrap then fire polish and drill for earrings. It took 6 1.5 mm needles to do all the holes at a cost of less then a penny a needle. If every thing is working right with the drill it is much faster then a diamond drill bit. It does take some time to figure out how to get the ultrasonic set up right. When it is right it is great but if not right it is a pain in the butt....................MrP Fire polished earrings Drilled earrings
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Post by MrP on Feb 21, 2020 13:11:05 GMT -5
Happy Birthday
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Post by MrP on Feb 19, 2020 11:40:08 GMT -5
Is this a similar motor, would it work in this application? 5K600BA
Smart ass. Zoro wasn't around when I had to buy that motor. I paid well more than that ! Sherman smartened up you S Carolinians. toiv0 James toiv0 joshuamcduffie Check the measurements very closely before you buy. I wasn't about to pay the ridiculous amount of money that james did, don't have his kind of money, so I found a cheaper one. Just before I hit the button to order I checked the specs of the motor and it was different then the one for the Viking. Not sure how they spec there motor but I was not able to find the right one any other place at the time. Not much room to spare in there. I didn't check the specs on this motor so it may work but I just wanted to point out to make sure it is the same...................MrP
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Post by MrP on Feb 17, 2020 13:31:56 GMT -5
I just rebuilt One and the factory O rings are 20 for 2. Factory set6ting on the weights are 1 and 1 notch. Noticed yours was set on 1. More vibes? Probably 4 years ago I bought a couple of factory sets for mine. Still using the 1st set and they have polished many batches. It runs 24-7 Spring through Fall and sometimes in the winter. I would rather spend the money on the right ones then change them out after a few batches. That is just me..........................MrP
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Post by MrP on Feb 16, 2020 12:27:14 GMT -5
Is MrP still following this thread? I’m curious how you coated the bowl with superglue Just happened to see this. Do this outside and keep downwind. There are lots of fumes doing it this way. I pore part of a bottle of thin Super Glue into the bowl and keep moving the bowl around until you see the whole inside is coated. If you use too much it may want to settle to the bottom when it is set down but that doesn't seem to matter. The coating doesn't last forever but I found it made a big difference for me. Good Luck.............MrP
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Post by MrP on Feb 10, 2020 8:16:43 GMT -5
Yes I still fuse. I found a person getting out of fusing and bought her out. It was only about 150 sheets of COE 90 and about 100 lbs of scrap. Sure would like to find a large amount at a good price. Someday........MrP My wife shops Craig's List for the same - people selling out. She finds a lot of good deals on 90 and 96. With the cost of coe 90 and 96 skyrocketing many are getting out. And many older folks are retiring, down sizing. Lot's of older folks were into fusing. I must have sold 30 bricks to the arrowhead guys for $4000. If I had to buy the glass new at it's ~ $10/pound I would have only broken dead even. Those guys did not realize I only paid 20 cents per pound for COE 90. Heck, I have ran out of yellow, low on red and orange opaque colors. About to start testing 'Wissmach' to see if it will be compatible with this imported 'Hot Melt' brand. Wissmach is about $80 per 10 pound plate so $8/pound. This is the 6000+ pounds of coe 90 'Hot Melt' I picked up for $1000. You may have seen this. The last photo is glass blower's scraps. www.flickr.com/photos/67205364@N06/sets/72157704378071941I saw it when you bought it. That is when I contacted every place I could find around here to see if the blowers had scrap or sellers had glass they didn't want. No such luck here. No large wholesalers in this area. I had no clue the price of glass when I started this and if you are making something from sheet glass you need two layers, three if thin glass. Cutting circles creates a lot of waste. Now I understand why they ask so much at craft shows. Also kilns don't run for free and the way I do some of my work I fire it up to 5 times. Sure is fun though........................MrP
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Post by MrP on Feb 9, 2020 15:14:47 GMT -5
Yes I still fuse. I found a person getting out of fusing and bought her out. It was only about 150 sheets of COE 90 and about 100 lbs of scrap. Sure would like to find a large amount at a good price. Someday........MrP
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Post by MrP on Feb 9, 2020 9:55:37 GMT -5
jamesp Hope you don't mind me posting on this thread. I just think this is such a good info thread. When I break the vases I try to stack them in themselves. This can make the flow of color layers turn out very nice. 'not the same vase' These are two vases I melted recently. Tall greenish vase left center. When the vase was melted it formed a thick 8" circle. I took a hammer to it and broke it into small pieces then scattered it in a circle to make this 13" - 14" kind of circle. Notice the nice finish on it. This is the red-yellow vase right center. Notice all of the devitrification. Looking at these vases side by side I did not guess the results would be so different. To me both vases looked and felt the same. They were melted the same way but they reacted very differently. I have melted wine glasses where the stem is clear and the cup part is a solid color. The clear stem wants nothing to do with the colored part. How can this be? It worked for them when they made it but with a remelt the clear and color no longer want to get along.....................MrP
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Post by MrP on Feb 9, 2020 8:27:34 GMT -5
jamesp The glass I am using for that is COE 90. It doesn't mind being remelted. As you have done, I have also broken and melted vases. Some behave very nicely but others don't like to cooperate. Still fun to see what they do. I have made pendants from vases that turned out very nice only to have them break many months later. I tried to find cheap glass, like you did, but I have had no luck in this area. All of the glass blowers in this area remelt there scrap..................MrP
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Post by MrP on Feb 8, 2020 12:10:49 GMT -5
This is the type of thing I am doing. Glass wants to be about 1/4" when it is melted. I cut Dichroic glass into 1/4" - 3/8" strips then cut about 1" long and melt them face down on clear glass. Then I put another sheet of glass on the bottom and some kind of clear Irid glass on top to try to get it about 1/2" or more deep. The stack tries to go back to 1/4" so it will stretch to make a larger plate. The piece is still more then 1/4" in the center so I break the plate and randomly place on the kiln shelf. It tries to get to the 1/4' so if there isn't enough glass you end up with holes. I happen to like that effect. Plate broken for pendants. Some plates I just can't break because I like them too much. The end result. The sheet of glass I started with was 5" x 10" with enough glass added to make a 19" circle..................MrP
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Post by MrP on Feb 8, 2020 8:35:08 GMT -5
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Post by MrP on Feb 7, 2020 18:41:59 GMT -5
toiv0 I was the person who built the barrel out of the LP tank. I lined it with a product called Smooth-on but after about a year it started letting go from the sides. I ended up cutting and prying it out. I just used it with no lining and it worked fine. I made a barrel out of HDPE and use that one for course and the one without the lining for fine and polish.
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Post by MrP on Feb 7, 2020 18:21:09 GMT -5
The person I bought my kilns from made a number of those drop vases. He used copper wire and on a few of them he dissolved the wire. Can't remember what solution he put them in to do it but he said it took a long time dissolve all the wire...................MrP
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