Can a CO2 laser melt and fuse glass powder frit?

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I was wondering if anyone has tried to use glass powder frit on a project.

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Well you did post this a few years ago :slight_smile:

Nice still having all the old posts to search through.

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Sand and glass frit are a bit different! :grinning:

I was just curious if anyone has experimented with it yet or will I be the first.

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I’ve molten basalt powder and ceramics in my Fabcreator. Glass has a lower melting point so should be no issue temperature wise. How to prevent it from beading up etc is something else. My guess is we reached around 1500 degrees C

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If beading up is a problem you could probably add a flux like calcium oxide or lithium oxide. I guess it depends on the type of glass the frit is make of.

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Hi Ned, I’ve not yet tried adding any flux but that would be the goal to figure out next time I try. Has anyone seen some 3d sintering addons for laser cutters?

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My friend at work does a lot of ceramics. She’s going to be with a lot of other ceramic people this weekend so she is going to see if she can get me some samples of different combinations of glass and flux.

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