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Last night I bombarded the fattest tube I have ever pumped. At 100mm diameter, 3mm wall thickness and about 5 feet long, its big.
This one is #borosilicate so I had a boro worker shrink it down and make the seals on a glass lathe.

Bombarding this is tricky, as the 19mm electrode glass is only 1.5 mm thick and will heat up more rapidly than the diffuse arc in the larger, thicker tube. To aid in the process, I wrapped the thick tube in the carcinogenic (but oh so insulative) frax blanket- which helped keep the heat in the middle like a jacket while the exposed #electrode extremities could cool down in between blasts from the bombarder.

I started with sorta normal pressures and currents (about 450ma current at about 5 torr of air) and then eventually ramped up to bombarding with about 1100ma of current at up to 17 torr of pressure! The outside took awhile to cool off and #vacuum out.

Gosh I wanna make one with xenon!

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The tube with an incinerated paper and you can look inside of the blanket and see a large strip of browned paper underneath the frax blanket next to the glass. A pile of burned up papers is below the charred paper on the tube.

The tube on the pump being bombarded. A purple glow is visible from inside the white, frax blanket roll. Black bombarder leads extend from the cieling to either end of the ttube
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The tube with the lights off on the aging table. You can see the paint drip table and the way the neon arc diffuses in the larger diameter of glass

The larger diameter in the light. The arc gets so diffused that it is transparent and you can see through the tube to a small white transformer behind it.

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Mes vases bulbes sont inspirés par la forme de graines et de plantes

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Wrapping up at Pilchuck and bouncing around Tacoma, Seattle for a day or two. Here is that 22mm borosilicate star I made. Brian Gillespie the Rhino torch maker got it at the auction party for scholarships an stuff.

I also made that eclipse and a purple an pink hand pulled phosphor coated color test.

The thick borosilicate is interesting... Makes me wanna get some of those oxygenated torches.

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The "I Wanna Be a Big Boro Star" live at auction. You can see it's depth an dimensionality

I hung it in the wall for its aging transformer bonus time. All open high voltage connections - quick an dirty aging table

Giant Boro Star sitting on the auction table

One of the instructors here, Brian Gillespie works at Rhino and 3D printed this surface mix gas oxygen torch from stainless steel.

It was fun getting to try it out. It heats nicely- the surface mix makes it much softer than a Carlisle. It basically won't liquify or burn the glass- but IS hot enough for bending, and is a pretty wide flame height (area).

The heavier wall borosilicate is interesting. Annoying that it may need to be annealed promptly, but it could be a bit more durable... And larger? I do love my soft glass (soda lime wall thickness about 1.75mm).

This is making me want to get the German surface mix ribbon burner. Expensive, but will probably last forever.

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Detail of Brian's torch with a star in the background

A 22mm x 2.5mm wall thickness star. Hand for scale.

Brian letting Justin test out the torch.

Detail side shot of the torch. It's nice to be able to turn it up a bit more.

With #Russia now being associated with murderous state aggression I feel "Russian dolls" (Matryoshka dolls) are a faux pas in the modern interior.

On a trial basis for the next week (or until my, uhm, housemate says otherwise) this lovely #Borosilicate #laboratory #glassware will fulfill the decorative role of "fun nested bunch of things"

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10, 50, 250, 600 and 2000ml beakers. The joy.

How decorative and adult. A cabinet (the finest second hand 1960 not-too-pricey jutlandish design) with a flowerpot light, icefree (conspiracy!) arctic ocean map, beakers and plant.

Edit: I almost forgot as they're invisible. But there's some Invisible Women.

Bad dolls. Baaaaaaad baaaaaad baaaaad baaaad baaad baad bad imperialistic dolls (with cute smiles).

I made this completely ridiculous tiny Thing at the end of a #borosilicate session and it’s too cute to toss but too small to do anything with and I have no idea what to do with it 🙃
I suppose eventually it will just end up under the couch or something!

Tiny unidentifiable creature made out of borosilicate glass held between fingers. It has two ears, a long-ish nose or face, and a weird bowling-pin looking body. It’s sort of yellow but mostly clear.

As the studio was closing down I was able to carry out plans to sneak these pieces into the big kiln and move the manifold over for a proper bakeout. Excited to get these #borosilicate #neon pieces filled. Some #experimental #workinprogress indeed. Studio is closed today #badair, but we should be filling tomorrow. Fingers crossed!

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both doors open- I used some of the furniture available and raised the surface of the kiln to shorten all the tubulations

One door closed and a green viton hose leak checking the big purple tube- its rate of rise test looked pretty good

Emily and I capture the moment of rolling the manifold table down the hall to the hotshop- a dream come true!

view with the doors closed and manifold ready. Gotta attach mercury traps tomorrow before vacuuming it all out.

Some phosphor dust coated tube in tubes. I was going to be filling them all today- but I forgot how unannealed borosilicate glass has a tendency to just crack on it's own when left for prolonged periods. I got the heat in part- but it's the heat out that I am forgetting.
Time to patch up cracks and wait for the kiln and technician stars to align once more. Excited to see how these coatings look.

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Some more photos of the giant mega tube pain in the butt. Its now also really annoying to move any carry and takes up a bunch of space. Gonna get it annealed in a giant kiln and then bombarded afterwards because the manifold does not have wheels. Goodbye nice shiny giant electrode and hello oxidation. I hope to be able to take it out of the kiln hot and then go easy on the bombarding. Fingers crossed it doesn't become more of a pain and break on the pump.
#borosilicate #glass #neat #accentlight

Big tube on the paper. I accidentally put the tubulation on upside down (that tube running off near the electrode - so the piece is backwards and upside down.

While moving it Here is another photo of it on the table. I think that is 4 x 8 foot table (83 inch long glass balloon)

This temporary storage place had to get moved after a bunch of murrine plates needed to get put there and this can go on the bottom

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While noodling with putting tubes in tubes, today I ran into an issue- the inner tube flexed over the 4 feet and was hitting the bottom. So I added those little scientific nub things. I think there is a name for them- and I probably didn't use the proper tool. They sure worked though.
I might have messed things up when I touched the inner tube with one of them. Still definitely learning the tube in tube bends

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@alifeeney Some photos of the borosilicate neon thing I made yesterday. 38mm, "lavender" and 83 inches long- its a proper thick, heavy pain in the butt. It is neat though. Its getting a krypton fill.
The gas oxy crossfire torch setup is plenty hot for me, but this thick tubing could use a bit more heat. Another torch or two and a foot pedal an aluminized jacket and gloves and I should be good!

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big tube on pattern with crossfire setup

Made a few tube in tubes today at Urbanglass. The outer tube heats the inner and then they both bend. Its tricky, and I am still practicing for sure. Borosilicate is a very different glass and the gas oxy carlisle torches are pretty different- but so nice and hot! I gotta try larger diameter inner and outer tubes next time.
Excited to dust coat some of these, and make a few more!

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long tube inside with ring seals on both ends and double blowhose adaptor. The torches in the back are candleing and ready for crossfire gas and oxygen bending! The hazyness is condensation on both sides from water vapor

Tube in tube held together with cardboard technology. you can see the outer tube is much thicker than the inner.

Wiggly doodle all crazy in a tube holder. Still gotta work on the wall weights and bends

After the first ring seal and side seal cools the other side can be ring sealed by making a roundbottom on the other end till it seals up. Here the tube is in the rollers and the other end in the candle flame, pre- pre heating

Yesterday, I found out that I can do this at Urbanglass for only $5 per hour. Yep- there is oxygen running through those torches and that is #borosilicate #glass. Available in super large sizes, those #pyrex tubes can be heated just like the neon crossfire with this setup- one quarter turn of the tube heats all sides.
Double the fire double the fun! Seen here are a 12mm tube and a 25mm tube bent just like with neon. So. Much. Heat!

#neon #crossfire #brooklyn #urbanglass #nyc #craft #sculpture

#Borosilicate

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