Glass Blowing Shop
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The Glass Blowing Shop provides support to the faculty and researchers within the College of Basic Sciences. The shop's primary mission is to design and fabicate prototypes of specialty laboratory equipment as well as repair existing types of glass apparatus and equipment. Types of glasses routinely used for fabrication include borosilicate (i.e. Pyrex), fused quartz, alumino silicate and some soft glass as well as heavy metal glasses such as lead glass.
Available equipment includes both large and small lathes along with various types of bench torches and equipment necessary to drill, cut, sand blast and grind glass. A 7 ft. long regular glass oven as well as a quartz oven are available for annealing. This shop is well stocked with tubing, joints, as well as valves. The shop is staffed by a full time master glass blower. Located in Choppin Hall. | Examples of special equipment produced by the Glass Shop: Liquid Nitrogen/ liquid helium four walled-single body dewar with quartz windows for low temperature crystallization studies. Continuously circulating ultra cleaning towers for cuvettes used in spectroscopy. Multistage water-cooled oil diffusion pumps. Glass seals to metals like Kovar, tungsten and platinum. A high vacuum pumping station is available for evacuation of cells, vessels and for the process of silvering.
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This page was last updated Friday, May 15, 2009
