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Spent some monies before tariffs started rolling in and got some phosphors (from the Netherlands).

Now I am making some new colors- a warm white and a pink. Mundy Hepburn was right- when buying phosphors- just get RGB... oh an maybe violet.

Gotta mix these on the ball mill for the recommended two days and then do some test coats- I sure am excited!

realistically I might do a test tomorrow. It will be nice to see how it moves and coats a sample tube.
It sure is coating the jar well after about 20 minutes. That is a 254nm quartz lamp for the argon mercury.

The nitrocellulose coatings are so effective! The chemicals are kinda nasty- but they evaporate rapidly and don't make phosphor waste that cannot be put down the drain.

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Some shots of the Nitro coated doodle on an off.

The first one at the shop on the aging table is still coming up to full brightness. You can see towards the top it gets dim. That is just the argon. Really shows the effect on brightness that the mercury brings to those phosphors. It takes a few minutes to fully age in an vaporize.

Yeah, my coatings could use some practice. I am, "Not Quite Voltarc" - the largest tube coating brand. I am certainly learning. I could use even more color on many of these.

I was really surprised at the brown the Calcedony gave me. The silver laden, poorly mixed glass looks blue when encased in clear, but its such an amazing brown as a filter glass! It beats the transparent dark "Gold Brown" that I thought would be so amazing.

Okay... I want more stretched bubbles in crazy stripey colors.... and more phosphor colors!

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I stayed late today to burn the binder out of all the hand pulled tubes I coated. Tomorrow I shall make a pretty doodle and (hopefully) see some fruits of my labour.

Fingers crossed for good shades of brown and pink light- a paradox I enjoy.

I have been noticing phosphor drips around the studio now. At first I was freaked out thinking they may release phosphor into the air- but they really just act like white paint. I cannot kick them up or scuff them.

Not sure if I should be laughing or terrified that my messes now glow pretty colors under a germicidal bulb?

Gosh- just look at that pink stripe! Some of my glassblower friends back their tubes with white glass. Sure that makes it look nice when its off... but I prefer the white backing to come from a glowing phosphor powder!

Sooo excited for tomorrow!

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At work today I found that the VHB tape had finally failed. Booo. No matter- the cotton floaty bits have now completely dissolved in the solvents. I got the mill spinning again by adding a clamp to it, and a shim to make the jars drift to the other side away from the motor.

My Ebay chemical buying habit is supporting some Ukrainians- my third chemical arrived today- Diethyl Phthalate- probably the most toxic of the bunch. I added a bit of it to the Chi Chis bottle which I divided in two.

I weighted out 30 grams of warm white 3700k phosphor and added it to the ChiChis, and 60 grams adding to a Wegmans Bruschetta Jar. After mixing for a little, I upped the ChiChis jar to 90 grams.

Apparently the ratio is 1.1 kilos for 8 liters... I am learning. They say to leave it spinning for two days before using it. Friday will be test day- assuming I can wait that long :)

So excited!

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Adding nitro cotton to the solvent mix. It is bizarre seeing it dissolve into the solvents. By the third mix I was really pulling it apart and mixing in each little poof before adding another.

The coating on my 12mm tube stir stick was thick, but totally covered. It burned off cleanly after waving it through the crossfire a bit- very nice since I plan on renting a kiln and don't want to make a big stinky kiln mess.

It coats the glass really well- I can definitely see how this could be the way to go once I maybe sieve out all the chunky cotton bits and mix in phosphor powders!

Although organic solvents aren't necessarily eco friendly, at least the leftover solvent in this method just evaporates. The "eco friendly" water based method has some water soluble solvents that are highly toxic to aquatic life- and they don't just evaporate easily.

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I am a bit scared of keeping these explosive nitro cotton balls lying around in our spark and fire filled studio. Here is the solution I am using.

They are shipped to me in sealed bags with moisture in them to keep them from igniting. So I took each bag and put it in a separate glass jar, then put all the jars in the giant sealed protein powder jar filled with water.

I figure the sealed and water encased jar should keep em from igniting. The cotton is neat to pull apart (and you definitely need to do so to add it slowly and prevent clumping- something I am learning.

I haven't ignited any yet- despite that being its intended use.
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