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> You'd take a piece of float glass, from like a window and slump it > ? > Is this at all how you would form a large diameter tube from found > thanks! Permafacture wrote: I'm no expert but I have seen pictures of large tube shaped parts
> I was thinking about how to slump a large diameter tube from a flat
> plane of glass. I have little experience with glass working and dont
> know to what degree this is workable...
> over a ceramic tube you made/found as a form. Put it in the kiln and
> let it soften and after its really gooy pull it out for a second and
> use poles to roll the hanging edges together. The maybe flip it so
> the seam is on top and put it back in the kiln.
> resources?
> What size kiln do glass workers usually have; what is the widest sheet
> i might be able to work?
> can it be anealed in the same kiln it was slumped in?
slumped from flat. The parts had a length maybe 5 times, from memory,
greater than the diameter, so what you require may be possible without
the roll up technique. The roll up sounds like the reverse of the old
tcchnique for producing flat glass where a cylinder was blown and split
an unrolled to form a flat sheet.