Laboratory Scientific Glassblowing: A Practical Training Method

by Paul Le Pinnet

Overview

Related Title: Laboratory Scientific Glassblowing: Advanced Techniques and Glassblowing's Place in History'If you are interested in learning about glassblowing techniques for scientific glassware, then this book is an incredible opportunity to learn from a master glassblower. Much of this information is passed down in person, and to have it available in a book such as this is a very rare opportunity that you should not pass up.'
IEEE Electrical Insulation MagazineThis book explains and demonstrates the methods involved in scientific glassblowing. It describes elementary to advanced glass manipulation together with technical information on its safe use and development in the laboratory. Edited by Paul Le Pinnet (MBE), a scientific glassblower with over 50 years' experience in the field, experts in glassblowing are brought together to explain their methods and approaches used to produce a variety of glassware.Laboratory Scientific Glassblowing is a unique project which updates and develops the traditional art of glassblowing and brings it into the 21st century. New skills and materials are introduced, including descriptions of working with fused silica, on laser profile cutting and on the creation of artistic glassware in a scientific setting. Written specifically as a hands-on reference work, this book can be used as a step-by-step practical guide for practitioners and scientists as well as students and apprentices interested in the field.Contributions from: Michael Baumbach, MD of H Baumbach & Co; Paul Rathmill, Enterprise Q; William Fludgate, MD BioChem Glass (app) Ltd; Ian Pearson (Past Chairman BSSG), Editor, BSSG Journal; Gary Coyne, California State University USA; Konstantin Kraft-Poggensee, Former chairman, German Scientific Glassblowing Society; Keith Holden President of the Australian and New Zealand Glassblowing Society; Phil Murray, Churchill Fellow.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781786341976
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Europe Ltd
Publication date:	05/23/2017
Pages:	456
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements v

Foreword vii

Introduction xi

1 Glass Technical Data 1

2 Basic Tools and Equipment for Scientific Glassblowing 11

3 Working Environment Regulations - Workshop Layout 17

4 Safe Glass Handling 25

5 Hand Techniques 33

5.1 Cutting of Glass - Tubing, Rod and Flat 33

5.2 Spear Points 49

5.3 Straight Joins 59

5.4 Unequal Joins 66

5.5 T Pieces 74

5.6 Y Pieces 77

5.7 90° Bends 81

5.8 U Bends 91

5.9 Button Seal 100

5.10 Supported internal Seal 110

5.11 Items 1-9 Repeated in Progressive Larger Diameters 121

5.12 Bulb Blowing 149

5.13 Spiral Winding 161

5.14 Liebig Condenser 167

5.15 Spiral Condenser 175

5.16 Capillary Joins 186

5.17 Repeat - Alternative Techniques 196

5.18 Cones, Sockets, Spherical Joints, Screw Joints, Flat Flanges and Buttress Joints - Their Application - The Use of Mechanical Aids Such as Lathes, Cut-Off Machines, Linisher Belts Diamond and Carborundum Lapping Machines 211

5.19 Flange Making - Dewar Seals, Sinters 236

5.20 Safe Working Pressures (Positive) - Vacuum 250

5.21 Glass to Metal Seals, Recrystallised Alumina to Glass Seals Graded Seals 254

5.22 Various Techniques 271

6 Hand Torch Techniques 311

7 Vacuum Manifold - Vacuum Measurement - Schlenk Lines 335

8 Silvering of Glassware 347

9 Packed Columns 353

10 Round Bottomed Flasks - Various Techniques for Attaching Side Arms 357

11 Standards of Competence 367

12 Drawing on Experience 371

12.1 The Manufacture of a Quartz UV High Temperature Coil Photoreactor 371

12.2 Laser Cutting Quartz Glass 374

12.3 Fit, Form and Function 376

12.4 Combining Artistic Glass Working Techniques within a Scientific Glassware Context 379

12.5 The Foster Cell 389

12.6 The Design and Construction of his Masterpiece 398

12.7 Variable Temperature Gas Inlet for Surface Science Ultra-High Vacuum Molecular Beam System 408

12.8 Former Apprentice of Seven Years 420

Index 433