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James Akers

Show coming up + commercial neon + 3 upcoming classes = oh dear I am busy.

I did make a crackle tube this week with Kacie Lees- such fun! We decided to make the upcoming crackle tube class on April 19th an 20th a Bring Your Own Glass - BYOG - to smash and put inside a tube :). The recycled aspect makes the final tube more interesting and its also just fun to smash glass every now an then. With a community of students and glass professionals- Urbanglass has some really interesting glass trash to smash.

I made a few gifs of the crackle tubes as photos can't really capture the frenetic nature of a tight fill. I also added a gif of Kacie attaching an electrode on the topo chico seltzer bottle krypton crackle tube I made. The topo bottles I smashed had enameled labels so they hold up to the heating needed to purify the glass.

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#neon#plasma#glass
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Andy

Hi I’m Andy and I’m new here! I’m currently a #props maker and scenic artist in the California Bay Area, but I’m switching things up and in the training process to become a peer #counselor and #socialworker. I’m an #artist and a nerd! A huge fan of #scifi and practical movie #specialeffects. ie Tom Savini. I love nature and the ocean. #punk music and #dungeonsAndDragons. Tea and biscuits. #psychology and neuroscience. Crafts and #miniatures. #harmreduction and housing as a human right. ✨🖤🌙

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James Akers

Another exciting thing I did at work was make this 25mm crackle tube!

The folks in the office are talking about selling 8 foot crackle tubes. I had never done one in 25mm, but hey it totally works, especially when you bake out the filling in a kiln! I dont think 8 feet would be too heavy... so long as it was handled carefully.

I learned that the opaque colorful frit is not as nice as the clear-and that it will actually be cheaper to buy crystal f4 "frit" than it will be to pay people to crush glass. That is, unless the office can upsell the recycling- our fill glass is currently recycled tubes.

I was kinda fearing the 8 footer, but now I really DO want to make one. Its slow and meditative- as long as the tube doesn't split open and spill its crushed glass guts everywhere :)

I really should make a peertube video of this so you can see the lightning

#neon #crackletube #plasma #plasma? #glass #specialeffects #fancy #25mm #nyc #workinprogress #work #frit #crush #recycled

the crackle tube lit up with a bunch of crossed wires an alligator clips on the fancy felt table that I put stuff to sit for awhile (messy). Lets see how this runs for awhile. That red arc dances around really quickly. 22 torr of neon gas (atmosphere is about 755 torr). Vaudeville neon is also sitting here
The fancy Europeanesque electrode prep for the 25mm crackle tube. I used the recycled free electrodes so I side tubulated. I really like the corner side tube. These new vigoreaux (not sure how they are spelled) are much easier to make. They are designed to keep the fill glass away from the electrodes.
"bombarding" the tube with the aging transformer. The idea is to use the most amount of air as you can while still maintaining an arc. The air is a poor conductor and has lots of resistance, so it generates heat when you put current through it. Like sandpaper. The aging transformer only has 60ma of current- so its a gentle sander. The white arc there is a mostly clean ish air arc.
Crackle tube and work table after sealing the last electrode on (you can see my brass holder. The Trash and Vaudville pattern I made (in case of breakage) is underneath as well as various sorting bins an tools for the glass. the big black transformer at the end acts as a weight. I sealed the electrode on with a hand torch
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