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Colored Frit that works with Float Glass (Window Glass)



colored glass crushed frit compatable with Float Glass (window glass)

Float glass, or as it is sometimes called, window glass, is a popular way to fuse glass. Float glass is inexpensive and often free when saved from your local commercial glass company. Work with thicker plate glass making room dividers, furniture, table tops or in doors. Before this product was available, you could not add color to float glass. Now the glassworker has a colorful palette of compatible frit and powder for decorating float glass.

It is important to know that all window or float glass may NOT be the same COE. Different manufactures make the glass. They are not concerned with the COE. It is usually around COE 82. What this means is that you may need to experiment.

 

DO YOU LIVE where it is impractical or expensive to ship sheet glass? Well this frit is perfect for you. You can easily find float glass locally and then use this frit for color. Float Glass is often free - ask your local glass shop to save their cut offs for you.

This Frit has a coefficient of expansion of 82 x10-7deg C

Recommended Working Temperatures and Times
   Degrees F  Degrees C
 Full Fuse  1562  850
 Tack Fuse  1436  780
 Slumping  1292  700
 Annealing  968  520
 Soak, full fuse

20 Minutes
 Soak, tack fuse

10 to 20 Minutes

Float glass is produced by flowing the melted glass over a bed of molten tin. This leaves an invisible but sometimes problematic haze on one side. When using this product, this haze may affect the applied colored glass. To solve this problem, determine the tinned side by test-firing two chips of glass from the same sheet, firing one side up and the other down. Keep track of which side hazes. The tinned sided can be determined with an ultraviolet light (see below item # 5214).

8.8 Ounce Jars (1/2 Pound)

Order No: Powder 0

OrderNo:

Fine 2

Description

Transparent

or Opaque

Lead Free

Price

 F00000  F00002
 Clear
Transparent
Yes
$7
 F00550  F00552
 Cobalt Blue
Transparent
Yes

$11
 F00760  F00762
 Chrome Green
Transparent
Yes

$9
 F00960  F00962
 Aquamarine
Transparent
Yes

$9
 F01050  F01052
 Deer Brown
Transparent
Yes

$11
 F01160  F01162
 Dark Violet
Transparent
Yes

$11
 F01650  F01652
 Amber
Transparent
No

$11
 F10450  F10452
 Cherry Red
Transparent
Yes

$13
 F20150  F20152
 Red
Opaque
Yes

$13
 F21150  F21152
 Red Extra Dense
Opaque
No

$12
 F20250  F20252
 Orange
Opaque
Yes

$12
 F20350  F20352
 Yellow
Opaque
Yes
$13
 F21350  F21352
 Yellow Extra Dense
Opaque
Yes
$12 
 F30450  F30452
 Dark Blue
Opaque
No
$11
 F31000  F31002
 White Lead Free
Opaque
Yes
$11
 F31200  F31202
 White
Opaque
No
$11
 F31300  F31302
 White Extra Dense
Opaque
No
$12
 F40050  F40052
 Gold Ruby
Opaque
No
$17
 F40250  F40252
 Gold Pink
Opaque
No
$17
 F00780  F00782
 Dark Green
Transparent
No
$11
 F00920  F00922
Lt. Aquamarine
Transparent
Yes
$9
 F00980  F00982
 Dark Aquamarine
Transparent
No
$9
 F01120  F01122
 Lt. Violet
Transparent
Yes
$9
 F10150  F10152
 Red
Transparent
Yes
$12
 F10250  F10252
 Orange
Transparent
Yes
$12
 F10350  F10352
 Yellow
Transparent
Yes
$12
 F10550  F10552
 Dark Red
Transparent
Yes
$12
 F10650  F10652
 Grenadine Red
Transparent
Yes
$12

*Clear Chips: Used as a spacer on the edge of the sheets when fusing frit between 2 sheets. This helps to eliminate some bubbles which are created by entrapped air.

Other Products

Order #
Description Price
52180

Tin Scope and Dectector:

 

 

 

A battery powered detector to determine which is the tin side of a sheet of Float Glass. Simply place the Short Wave UV window against the glass. The tin side will be foggy, the reverse side will be clear. Weighs only 7.5 oz. (340g) and measures 6-1/2" long x 1-3/4" wide (165 x 45mm). Carry cord is attached. Powered by 4 AA batteries (not supplied).

 $65
5214

Tin Scope and Dectector: Two tools in one - use the long wave UV bulb that is supplied with the light to set UV glue, and use the optional short wave UV bulb #5214W to determine the tin side of float glass.

 $105
5214W

Optional Bulb: Optional short wave UV bulb for #5214 to determine the tin side of float glass.

 $32

 
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