Anyone want to make uranium glass? Henry?

[Brian Newman]

http://www.ujp.cz/?id=599&lang=en

[colonel4bin]

I'm pretty sure they still make it every now and then in Europe, I forget who, Kavalier or Schott I think. Not much use for it anymore, it was used for tungsten to glass seals, I've done a few, pretty easy. Now they make a glass that works just as well without the uranium, so not much need anymore. I'm thinking the risk isn't worth the reward to make it. You can still find it around if you need some, KansasGlass was selling some on here a while ago. Also check e-bay, but it's never cheap.

[jstnoldhippie]

I don't think any one in th U.S. makes it. Ukrain, or somewhere in the former U.S.S.R still makes it on ocassion. It comes into the U.S. from Mexico or something like that. You can sometime hook up with some on Ebay of alll places. Caution though. I've read a book on Vasaline glass (the comercial name for uraniam glass) and it had a little history on the actual process. According to that book, the glass is safe in it's hardened state, but in the molten it make a gieger counter sing. Never found any more info on it, but uranium is uranium. Henry's blacklight colors have a lot of the same effect, the way they glow under blacklight, and seem a more practicall route.

[HumanLathe]

there are actually a few american companies making urainium glass just not in boro. Its all Vaseline Glass. these companies specialies in remakes of vintage vasaline glass. I asked them about 6-7 years ago to make me some boro uraimium but they said the best they could do is send me a very condesed version which I would have to mix with hundreds of pounds of glass to get the right coe.JNeedles to say I gave up

[Brian Newman]

You wouldn't need to mix it all at once. Uranium increases COE and softens the glass, so if it was being made for artists instead of for tungsten seals, it should be possible to make something that fits better in both viscosity and COE, but you would have to batch a special batch of clear. More than I can afford to or know how to do.

[Greymatter Glass]

I dont think there's enough demand to do the research to batch U glass boro state side. If these were, someone would do it.

I can get you small quantites of Uranium Oxide if you want to batch it yourself, but I'd suggest you buy a geiger counter and some radmax shielding first.

-Doug

[HumanLathe]

actually they said you have to keep the cocentrated u glass in a lead container, too scary for me

[maui greenstone]

Didn't Sebastian from GA have some new stuff that was virtually bubble free that he was playin with at AGI?