Wendy Hampton on fri 9 may 97
Hi,
I have a friend that wants to use glass beads incorporated into clay objects.
Has anyone done this? What was the outcome?
At what temperature does glass melt?
I was thinking about bisqing to about ^015-016 then rakuing - watching until
the glass begins to melt then pulling it out.
thanks for the help
Wendy from Bainbridge Island WA
M Richens on sat 10 may 97
In article <970508131637_1041015338@emout03.mail.aol.com>, Wendy Hampton
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>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Hi,
>I have a friend that wants to use glass beads incorporated into clay objects.
> Has anyone done this? What was the outcome?
>At what temperature does glass melt?
>I was thinking about bisqing to about ^015-016 then rakuing - watching until
>the glass begins to melt then pulling it out.
>thanks for the help
>Wendy from Bainbridge Island WA
Hi Wendy,
Depends on the glass type but generally glasses have softening points
from 450 Celsius upwards. A low soda high lime glass may have
sufficiently high viscosity and surface tension to stay as beads/blobs.
But the best thing to do is try it (with a scrap furnace batt underneath
in case it doesn't work..)
After all they can keep the chocolate chips in the cookies while they
cook and chocolate melts at blood heat..
Max
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Max Richens max@richens.demon.co.uk +44 (0) 1925756241
Enamel Consultant - Ceramist - Analyst programmer
Software for Batch Formulation and Millroom control.
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