Quartz Rod or Fused Quartz

[LunacyMountain]

so ABR has Fused Quartz tubes and rods in tons of different sizes and I understand this is glass fused with quartz not solid quartz, but my question is can I use these rods as quartz nails in a dome set up? or will it not take the heat from a butane torch like the solid quartz rods you can get?

[JBob]

i believe quartz nails are all fused quartz. So i think this will work for what you need it to.

[LunacyMountain]

I e-mailed one of the companies I found that were advertising pure quartz rods and they said what they were selling was solid quartz and not fused.. right over $5/ft vs the fused quartz is right over $7 for a whole 4ft rod

[sertaiz]

so whos going to make a whole something out of the tube?

[nicko0]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fused_quartz

[LunacyMountain]

so Wiki says....
"The extremely low coefficient of thermal expansion, about 5.5×10−7/°C (20–320 °C), accounts for its remarkable ability to undergo large, rapid temperature changes without cracking"

Thanks for the link Doug

[LunacyMountain]

yeah Sertaiz I was also thinking that same thing.....sooo who has worked with this fused quartz tube? and is it a real bitch to melt????

[raul24]

fused quartz is a bitch to work and you'll need shade 8 specs and really good ventilation.

[standard28]

I'm pretty sure any GE/Momentive quartz we use, will be fused. I know there are others but what we get should be all fused.

[raul24]

you get fused quartz and fused silica, one is natural and one is synthetic and technicaly its vitreous silica.

[Shonski]

So one thing I was wondering is what is better for a fuming rod? Sounds to me like fused will work fine... Right?..

[chinamerry315]

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[truedef]

we have quality quartz rod, china sand or unimi sand. price is comptittive.
contact me.

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[Greymatter Glass]

quality does go all the way back to the raw materials used to make a product.... doesn't excuse marketing spam.