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Post by Starguy on Apr 27, 2015 23:42:48 GMT -5
I've seen that bugger. It's a way nicer blue than the photo shows. I think I need to start watching out for blue glass. That's a cool piece jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Apr 28, 2015 4:22:51 GMT -5
I've seen that bugger. It's a way nicer blue than the photo shows. I think I need to start watching out for blue glass. That's a cool piece jamespOne of a kind stone, never seen a star that big. I like your garnets.
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Post by jamesp on Apr 28, 2015 4:26:52 GMT -5
Looked up conundrum 1 : a riddle whose answer is or involves a pun 2 a : a question or problem having only a conjectural answer b : an intricate and difficult problem
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Post by drocknut on Apr 28, 2015 18:36:28 GMT -5
You know about karma right? Bring it on. And understandably so. Big sapphires and lots of BS. karmacize away Diane ah, you will be in Montana soon and to busy to retaliate. Are you sure I'll be too busy? Karma does have a way to work without help from us you know.
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Post by jamesp on Apr 28, 2015 18:43:49 GMT -5
Pleeze no bad karma bombs. Maybe I should swallow my falsified sapphire to hide it. But it would be bad karma to pass
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Post by jackangeline on Dec 30, 2015 11:03:25 GMT -5
Alabama sapphire?
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Post by Intheswamp on Dec 30, 2015 15:05:58 GMT -5
Pickin' sides already, ja? James, Gov. Bentley wants his piece of glass back....
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Post by jackangeline on Dec 30, 2015 15:20:15 GMT -5
Just was thinking it was something (new find?) that I did not hear about.
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Post by jamesp on Dec 30, 2015 16:42:23 GMT -5
Pickin' sides already, ja? James, Gov. Bentley wants his piece of glass back.... Gov. Bentley has a warm welcome to us outsiders Ed. Those signs do not face Alabama. jackangeline, not sure if Alabama has glass yet. Strategic Materials(glass recycler) up the street from me 10 miles was the origin of this fine piece. Mountains of broken bottles separated by basic color for remelt. Slag glass gets brought in but is usually pushed off to the side as it does not do well in their furnaces. Most of the slag comes from the Owens Corning fiberglass insulation manufacturing plant. For some reason they have to break up a 100' X 50' X 3' deep pool of solidified glass on occasion. It is usually clear or brown or green glass. That blue glass was delivered to Strategic with a pile of crushed blue bottles. Similar to Milk of Magnesia bottles.
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Post by jackangeline on Dec 30, 2015 16:59:27 GMT -5
Pickin' sides already, ja? James, Gov. Bentley wants his piece of glass back.... Gov. Bentley has a warm welcome to us outsiders Ed. Those signs do not face Alabama. jackangeline , not sure if Alabama has glass yet. Strategic Materials(glass recycler) up the street from me 10 miles was the origin of this fine piece. Mountains of broken bottles separated by basic color for remelt. Slag glass gets brought in but is usually pushed off to the side as it does not do well in their furnaces. Most of the slag comes from the Owens Corning fiberglass insulation manufacturing plant. For some reason they have to break up a 100' X 50' X 3' deep pool of solidified glass on occasion. It is usually clear or brown or green glass. That blue glass was delivered to Strategic with a pile of crushed blue bottles. Similar to Milk of Magnesia bottles.
The reason they have to break up the large "pools" of glass is a scheduled furnace rebuild every 10yrs or so they shut down and rebuild the furnaces. just a fyi for those curious. each furnace in on a schedule...last thing you want is a blow out and have glass (molten) leak from the furnace....tends to make a mess of things....not as bad a steel but still bad.
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Post by jamesp on Dec 31, 2015 8:24:43 GMT -5
Interesting jackangeline. I had heard that it was some sort of an overhaul or scheduled maintenance. The Owens plant has multiple lines running; they may do these rebuilds fairly often. The blowout sounds ominous. Thanks for the answer
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Post by jackangeline on Dec 31, 2015 9:55:49 GMT -5
Interesting jackangeline . I had heard that it was some sort of an overhaul or scheduled maintenance. The Owens plant has multiple lines running; they may do these rebuilds fairly often. The blowout sounds ominous. Thanks for the answer each furnace has molten glass in it for the 10yrs or so it is up...then they drain the furnace, shut down, let it cool they re-line the furnace. Then all is good for another 10yrs or so.
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Post by Pat on Dec 31, 2015 10:02:50 GMT -5
What happens when they drain the furnace? Seems like that would result in a pile of pretties akin to Fordite.
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Post by jamesp on Dec 31, 2015 10:11:41 GMT -5
What happens when they drain the furnace? Seems like that would result in a pile of pretties akin to Fordite. It seems they use a single color glass in each furnace Pat. Most of the chunks are clear glass. Others brown or green. I have never seen any mixed colors from the Owens plant. jakesrocks used to work at one of the plants. I think he mentioned the raw glass came in in like 1 inch balls.
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Post by Pat on Dec 31, 2015 10:15:09 GMT -5
What happens when they drain the furnace? Seems like that would result in a pile of pretties akin to Fordite. It seems they use a single color glass in each furnace Pat. Most of the chunks are clear glass. Others brown or green. I have never seen any mixed colors from the Owens plant. jakesrocks used to work at one of the plants. I think he mentioned the raw glass came in in like 1 inch balls. Hmm, couldn't the one inch balls be cut in half and called a high-dome cab? I wonder if those balls are currently being used for anything other than remelt.
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Post by jakesrocks on Dec 31, 2015 10:45:27 GMT -5
That was a Johns-Manville plant in Cal. The glass balls were about 5/8" diameter. They were clear with a slight yellowish tint, and were full of air bubbles. Somewhere in all of my junk I still have a few. Kept them as a reminder of just how miserable it is to work in a plant where they make fiberglass insulation.
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Post by jamesp on Dec 31, 2015 11:25:09 GMT -5
That was a Johns-Manville plant in Cal. The glass balls were about 5/8" diameter. They were clear with a slight yellowish tint, and were full of air bubbles. Somewhere in all of my junk I still have a few. Kept them as a reminder of just how miserable it is to work in a plant where they make fiberglass insulation. I hear the same story from my Owens employee neighbors Don. Sure you didn't use them for sling shot ammo ? I do find the one inch balls that were reflectors in RR signs 100 years ago.
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Post by jamesp on Dec 31, 2015 11:32:34 GMT -5
It seems they use a single color glass in each furnace Pat. Most of the chunks are clear glass. Others brown or green. I have never seen any mixed colors from the Owens plant. jakesrocks used to work at one of the plants. I think he mentioned the raw glass came in in like 1 inch balls. Hmm, couldn't the one inch balls be cut in half and called a high-dome cab? I wonder if those balls are currently being used for anything other than remelt. Check it out Pat, glass balls/plugs used in the signs back in the old days when jakesrocks..... Lots of them on Ebay. They come in many colors. I have found a dozen or so over the years illegally cross tie walking.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2016 16:07:08 GMT -5
I worked as a chemist in a fiberglass plant! For two weeks.graveyard sucks.
The furnaces and the pool of molten glass they contain is 12' overhead. The molten glass ooured thru a platinum die that was heated electrically. 440V line voltage stepped down to 4v full current. Platinum glowed like a lightbulb.
Anyways, once in awhile i had to go in there to 'pull' a sample for the lab. That sucked. Do it wrong and the strands break off the wheel spinning them slapping them on my arm, embedding bits of molten glass. Ughhh... That job sucked with a very loud slurping noise.
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Post by jackangeline on Jan 9, 2016 18:04:09 GMT -5
@shotgunner I did some work on the electrical (heating the platinum die) at a plant for a while. Also the equipment that winds the fiberglass. My job did not suck that much. lol
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