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Making and working with Glass, from the Glass Encyclopedia (437 words) |
 | There are many forms of working with glass, some requiring large expensive furnaces and cooling ovens (for glass blowing) whilst others need only a blow torch (for lampworking) or small kiln (for slumped glass). |
| It was the Romans who discovered that the fluid property of glass as it cools makes it possible to blow a bubble into the glass and create a vessel. |
| Glass stays flexible as it cools and can be manipulated by blowing a bubble into it, or pulling it around to make various shapes before it cools and becomes a "super cooled liquid". |
| Zangobob's Blow torch Heaven (7151 words) |
| I do feel that it is the responibility of all persons that collect blow torches for the purpose of preserving the history and heritage of them to be diligent about properly reassembling their torches by putting the correct parts with the correct torch and reassembling it correctly. |
| A blow torch must have a carburator, which consists of the orifice, burner head and the air holes in same, as well as a chamber where the fuel and air are mixed together for combustion. |
| It is the primary goal of this style to highlight the appearence of the metals from which the torch was made by cleaning off all traces of oxodation from the smallest nooks and crannies of the sample. |
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