Glass Casting: Loading the Kiln Properly & MORE.

How to efficiently prepare your kiln for glass casting, load your molds properly, prepare your glass for casting, and more! This video covers basic kiln maintenance-safety, element care, etc.-how to level your glass casting mold to prevent spills and how to safely break up your glass billets to fit into your mold.
To learn how to estimate glass volume without math (using displacement) watch this: • Displacement: How to C...
Here's how we made our basic glass casting molds: • How to Make a Mold for...
Lecture/demo by Prof. Davin Ebanks at Kent State University.

[@Asdayasman]

Another good safety layer is having the on button warded (as it is), and the off or "stop" button unwarded. Less dexterity is then required to emergency stop the machine, dexterity of which you may be in short supply whilst redirecting 10kW through the floor.

[@kentstateglass5011]

Good idea! Thankfully there are redundant safety systems on our kilns. There is the safety switch which kills power at the controller and is designed to fail safe. There is also the fact that the kiln is in OFF mode when we are loading the kiln. Finally, there is fuse/breaker box on the kiln as a 100% safety measure. On our kilns that are plugged into an outlet, we can also unplug them to be even more sure. (I always do this when servicing those kilns.)

[@GameArtsCafe]

How to you know the exact measurement of glass to add to the mold? do you first full the mold with silica sand and then dump that on a scale to weigh it, plus a little extra? Sorry, I'm completely new to the concept, I received my first Kiln today and I haven't seen a process yet going through videos.

[@kentstateglass5011]

If you haven't already found it you can watch our video on displacement here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gGW5YZuZn6-Uisk

[@MrFiammaoscura]

Is there any second part or it just end here?

[@kentstateglass5011]

No Part 2 yet. This video just covers loading the kiln. Would you like to see a video of some parts of the casting process?

[@benschilderman2673]

Would the mold still hold up at 2000F or wil they break?

[@kentstateglass5011]

Plaster off-gasses at around 1650ºF. At that point it really breaks down as is VERY fragile indeed. What do you need to go to 2000ºF for? Most castings happen at 1450-1600ºF.

[@benschilderman2673]

@@kentstateglass5011I want to experiment with melting copper between layers of glass. Thats why i need to reach that high of a temperature