Foresthrt on wed 22 apr 98
there is a tool for this (about $100) that is all steel: a heavy disc on a
thick handle fitted to slide snugly within a heavy cylinder. The glass fusing
folks use it to make frit. People who have welders for friends scoff at the
price.
I can get you one from the wholesaler I deal with (my studio sells glass
fusing and lampwork supplies).
Mary Klotz foresthrt@aol.com
Forestheart Studio (301) 845-4447
200 South Main St. box 112, Woodsboro (near Frederick) MD 21798
11-5 east coast time; closed Wed. and Sun.
Richard Gralnik on thu 23 apr 98
A while back a couple of us here came up with a design for a crusher built
from standard plumbing parts. Basically you get a wide pipe tube
and put a cap on one end. Get a bell reducer for the other end put a
pipe through the reduced sized hole. (You can bell-increase the smaller
pipe back up to the inside diameter of the main tube if you like.) Cap the
end of the thinner tube on the end that will be inside the main pipe and
screw on the bell reducer. It kind of ends up like a butter churn.
Put your material inside the main pipe at the cap end, screw the cap
on and start crushing. There were enhancements suggested that
involved springs or bungy cords to power the plunger, T connectors
and short pipes for handles, pogo-stick variations and others.
Rube Goldberg would be proud.
Richard
At 07:48 AM 4/22/98 EDT, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>there is a tool for this (about $100) that is all steel: a heavy disc on a
>thick handle fitted to slide snugly within a heavy cylinder. The glass
fusing
>folks use it to make frit. People who have welders for friends scoff at the
>price.
>
>I can get you one from the wholesaler I deal with (my studio sells glass
>fusing and lampwork supplies).
>
>Mary Klotz foresthrt@aol.com
>Forestheart Studio (301) 845-4447
>200 South Main St. box 112, Woodsboro (near Frederick) MD 21798
>11-5 east coast time; closed Wed. and Sun.
>
>
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