sil bromide question

[Victor Chiarizia]

so i made the silver bromide per petes post. looks like yellow green crack and tough as nails. does it always run and drip when you put it on a hot gather? i've seen josh use it and i remember it going on like chalk... dry and whitish sort of. or did i screw up the formula. thats it vic

[Kurt Walrath]

it always runs and drips...Josh burns it in
with a oxy hydrogen torch after he puts
it on. thats what dries it out and makes
it chalky.

[Pete VanderLaan]

Silver chloride goes on more like chalk.

You will also find that there will be little tiny pieces of the bromide that you simply can't use as time goes on. It is virtually insoluble. Keep it and the next time you make bromide, put it into the solution just before you mix the two components. The tiny pieces will get locked into the larger mass and will wind up being usable.

Don't overdo it! It just takes a tiny bit to get a great effect.

[Victor Chiarizia]

thanks, hey pete, how far are you from hartford. i'll be in new england for turkey day and have a couple days to kill and looking to visit some old buds.....and you are old, i'm just 50 now. vic

[Wes Hunting]

Also keep it off any tools,block or your marver. It will contaminate anything it comes in contact with for years to come.

[Pete VanderLaan]

Originally posted by Victor Chiarizia
thanks, hey pete, how far are you from hartford. i'll be in new england for turkey day and have a couple days to kill and looking to visit some old buds.....and you are old, i'm just 50 now. vic
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You are just too kind.

I'm about four hours from hartford. I dodder down there now and then to take in a moving picture show.

Just remember that once you are over the hill, you pick up speed and fifty is definitely on the back nine of the action.

[Jim Vormelker]

As long as the thread is hijacked - - -

there are a couple of us out here who chuckle over you young guys talk about age at 50.

[Earl Beard]

I tell ya- for those that havn't tried it... go get chemicals, and make up your own chalks, this chalk to make up is just the most fun... and toxic vapors... that to make pieces this beautiful I can't stay away no matter what. Just make sure you got real good ventilation in your atmosphere for use of that stuff. It makes even better look then simple fuming when using the Drip Technique of silver rolling around your hot glass, oooh, aah. hee hee, Have a good day, Glazmon Earl"E"