Living Well On Less
Less Money - Less Stress - More satisfaction
Tools, Tips and Tricks to Enjoy Your Life and Get Things Done
These are pics of mixing up glass batch for my furnace bead or cane bead beadmaking from somewhere around mid-winter in 2004.
There's an easier way to mix smaller amounts.
Mix smaller batches in a bucket or small plastic drum cut in half. I use a drywall mud or paint mixer and a drill. Cardboard with a hole for the shaft sits on top of the bucket to keep the dust down. This is fast and some of the most complete mixing so far.
Spraying a bit (not too much!) water in it helps with the dust. If you want super-sanitation on dust issues the industrial supply houses sell plastic bucket caps that look like a womens showercap. You'll have to add the hole for the shaft.
weighing out the sand on a digital scale
Dumping it onto the screen to be sifted.
Crushing the Lumps
Bumping it to get it to go through the screen
I check off each addition on a checksheet to minimize mistakes. The checksheet comes from a spreadsheet I built to calculate the expansion of the finished glass.
Same as above
Measuring some of the smaller quantity chemicals
Into the mixer it goes.
Adding a bit of water to help pelletize it and cut down the dust.
Dumping it out
Into the glass furnace it goes!!!!
©
Copyright 2011
Copyright 2011
Site Map
About
FAQ
Affiliate Disclosure
and Your Privacy