Glass Working by Heat and Abrasion

by Paul N Hasluck
reprinted by Lindsay Publications

Another hundred-year-old gem from Hasluck's "Work" series!

Chapters include: appliances used in Glass blowing, manipulating glass tubing, blowing bulbs and flasks, jointing tubes to bulbs etc, forming thistle funnels, blowing and etching fancy glass articles, gilding and embossing sheet glass, utilising broken glass apparatus, boring and riveting glass, hand-working of telescope specula, turning and grinding glass, and the manufacture of glass.

Obviously that's a lot of ground to cover in a small book, but you WILL get useful information that will get you going inexpensively. If you find later that you need better information, you can search for more modern, complicated textbooks that sell for many times the price of this little beaut.

So start creating laboratory glassware. Be careful, though! Your dipstick neighbors will think you're running a designer drug lab!

You might be able to use this info with a vacuum pump set up to create unusual Geissler tubes, or neon tubes, or something similar. Or use some ideas here and ideas from Gingery books to create a glass lathe on which radio vacuum tubes were created. You won't get all the secrets here, but you will get a great introduction to working glass.

Note: we first reprinted this in 1989, but haven't had any in stock for the last few years. It's back for a while.

Another excellent book by PN Hasluck. His little books never fail to be interesting. But you always wish good books were bigger. This is one of them. Great ideas. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 160 pages

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