Glass Tips from Verrier

You need to clean glass that is going into the kiln to avoid devitrification   on the surfaces.   This can be a greater or lesser problem ...

Causes and avoidance   Photo credit: Immerman Glass  In general, kiln wash for glass is made up of aluminium hydrate with kaolin (China ...

Christopher Jeffree has kindly outlined the reasons for the effectiveness of citric acid as a cleaner for removing refractory mould residu...

The primary purpose of flux is to prevent oxidation of the base and filler materials in the short time between cleaning and soldering. Tin-l...

All common untreated metals and metal alloys (including solders) are subject to an environmental attack in which their bare surfaces become ...

Flux is a material that provides a “wetting” action between the metal (lead, copper,and zinc, among others) and the solder. There are vario...

Flux is a key contributor to most soldering applications. It is a compound that is used to lift tarnish films from a metals surface, keep th...

Inclusions of metals can be achieved with care.  Copper is a very good metal, as it is soft, even though its expansion characteristics are v...

Glass can do most anything. From bottles to spacecraft windows, glass products include three types of materials: Formers are the basic in...

There are a variety of ways to remove kiln wash.  Many depend on whether the surface is flat, smooth curves, angles or textured.  Some ar...

Lead free solders have been created in response to concerns about lead, especially in the electronics industry. The following tables presen...