Thread: How does brass "grow"

Like a glass window is always flowing under gravity, ie thinning at the top, thickening at the bottom, Ebf make sure you store you brass up the right way to stop this process HAHAHAHAHAHA

Originally Posted by Maca49

Like a glass window is always flowing under gravity, ie thinning at the top, thickening at the bottom, Ebf make sure you store you brass up the right way to stop this process HAHAHAHAHAHA

surely you just need to turn your cases every so often ?

Originally Posted by Maca49

Like a glass window is always flowing under gravity, ie thinning at the top, thickening at the bottom

A myth, as often perpetuated as regularly as it's debunked.

Does Glass Flow? | Corning Museum of Glass

Originally Posted by Ryan

A myth, as often perpetuated as regularly as it's debunked.

Does Glass Flow? | Corning Museum of Glass

We'll i'll be! I always thought it to be true.
But to be fair what would a glass museum know about glass?

Originally Posted by Ryan

A myth, as often perpetuated as regularly as it's debunked.

Does Glass Flow? | Corning Museum of Glass

Being an old hack and re glaze man, I have never seen a pane of glass thick at the top and thin at the bottom, I therefore conclude that the old old old hack and re glaze men used to measure the glass before installation and always put the thick end down! They created this illusion just to confuse us, who would have thought!

Originally Posted by Maca49

Being an old hack and re glaze man, I have never seen a pane of glass thick at the top and thin at the bottom, I therefore conclude that the old old old hack and re glaze men used to measure the glass before installation and always put the thick end down! They created this illusion just to confuse us, who would have thought!

it would be drawn sheet glass on those old hack and smack putty jobs(use to a have adrawn sheet plant manufacturing glass up north)sheet glass is quite wavey with lite on it(it does vary in thickness but that is due to the process of drawing the molten glass up at tower between rollers. Today s glass is all (new) imported float glass from over seas ,float is consistent in thickness and optically superior and easier to cut as well.we do toughen glass in Nz but not actually produce as a new product(that is stock sheets of raw annealed glass)toughened is cut to size before toughen can't cut after proccess