#11880
Fri Mar 31 2006 11:19 AM
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Has anyone ever installed flat glass in a plastic globe body? The after market lenses are curved.....before going to a glass shop and having it cut, just whant to know if it will work before I go thru the expense and time and find that it won't.
Paddy Wanted. Billups, Ride with Rose, Har-V, LORECO, STANOCOLA, Pan Am (early), Hurricane, Evangeline, Canal, Gulf Coast, oil companies.
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#11881
Fri Mar 31 2006 11:34 AM
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it works.the mobilhorse in this pic is flat glass.
Looking for gas,oil related clocks,especially neon and spinners .clock repair available. Mick
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#11882
Fri Mar 31 2006 11:54 AM
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This question makes me wonder if globes are printed on flat glass and then curved or printed on curved glass
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#11883
Fri Mar 31 2006 04:00 PM
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I use lexan that I get from home depot for the backs of pump lens that will never be seen. Like a pump mounded against the house for good - no reason to have another lens on the other side, so I put the lexan that I cut with tin snips to fit, works GREAT.
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#11884
Fri Mar 31 2006 06:01 PM
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thanks for all of the advice.....I am having T-ways making the decals for a Billups globe for both sides. I sent him a photo of an old picture of a Billups pump and he has sent a sample of what he can do!!! He sure was very quick and was just what I wanted!!!!! Plus he is also making the decals for the pump doors (wayne 100). I CAN'T WAIT to receive the finished product. I would like to post a picture of the finished pump if I can ever figure how to do it.....remember....fillup with billups, your friend!
Paddy Wanted. Billups, Ride with Rose, Har-V, LORECO, STANOCOLA, Pan Am (early), Hurricane, Evangeline, Canal, Gulf Coast, oil companies.
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#11885
Fri Mar 31 2006 06:49 PM
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Lenses are screened on to flat glass, then slowly fired [heated] to slump into a mold & slowly cooled. db
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#11886
Sat Apr 01 2006 06:44 AM
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I always thought the paint came after. Would'nt it burn before you got the glass hot enough to melt?
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#11887
Sat Apr 01 2006 08:21 AM
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It is not paint. It is fired porcelain frit, which applied properly is more durable.
There is no melting of glass. It is heated to a state of plastic deformation and gravity takes over. That may be an incorrect term for glass, but if it were metal it is correct. IE, the billet is heated to a state of plastic deformation, then struck in a forging die to take on its new shape.
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