Per1234

I work at a college that has a glass department and you are correct that BN is used mainly as a mold release for kiln form glass, (we use it on pre-heated metal molds) but since Patti Hirst who is the wife of a spectrum glass director came and did a demo, we have only used BN on the mandrels. We use a Bohle volcano and found that other flux's did not adhere to the mandrel during draping, but BN has a higher temp range and allows for the easier application of the glass onto the mandrel. I am waiting for info from Bohle tech help and that should be a good enough source for this information. Markdarrly (talk) 17:32, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

Re: Markdarrly's BN info in Lampworking article

Good to know that BN works as a bead release. Maybe it could be written something like: clay based bead releases are most common, but boron nitride can also be used. I don't think this statement would be particularly controversial so a reference would not be required although it would be useful as this is not widely known. I'm glad to see someone putting some work into this article as it needs lots of help. I would like to do much more to it including restructuring the general outline and making it a bit less "bead-centric". I recently made some changes and have been watching to see how they will be received before putting more work into it. I noticed that a couple different people have put work into it in the past and then had the changes indiscriminately reverted so I don't want to put in a bunch of time for nothing.

I think that you must be telepathic, (what are this weeks lotto numbers going to be?!) because thats exactly how iv re written it! If you want to let me know how you think the article could be improved, let me know and il get to work on it. Iv gone mad on artglass article today, can you believe that someone put that stained glass is made up from acrylic film? Clue=Glass in the title!. Give me a shout when you have thought about it and il sort it!Markdarrly (talk) 19:40, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

Great! I'll put together a proposed outline sometime this week and post it here. I think that giving the article a bit more organized structure will make it easier for people to add and edit in a constructive manner. The most major change I've made so far, and I may have been a bit too bold in this(I'm a fairly newb wikipedian), is changing the definition. So maybe you could take a look at the before and after(http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lampworking&oldid=512080056) and see if you agree with my edit. That's amazing about the acrylic reference, there were a couple blatantly incorrect things almost on that level in the Lampworking article that I just had to fix such as the statement that graphite has low thermal conductivity and that is why it is used for lampworking tools.

Lampworking Article proposed outline

I decided to put my proposed outline for the Lampworking article on the Lampworking talk page to see if others have input. If you have any input Markdarrly, let's continue the conversation there for all to contribute to. I'm hoping we can work together to make sure any far-reaching changes we make will not be undone. Per1234 (talk) 05:46, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

No problemo, il jog on down and have a look :-) Markdarrly (talk) 06:40, 9 October 2012 (UTC)