Ok I need help. I have a wire saw and I think I might like it but I cant keep the marks for my pattern on the glass long enough to get anything cut out with out going nuts. I have even tried using spry mount to put the pattern in the glass. Any ideas would be welcome. Thanks Mouse
After you draw the line with a sharpie, coat it with vaseline, chapstick, or a commercial product from the glass stores, called Mark-Stay.
white-out pens should work, too.m
My goodness....how much water does one of those wire saws sling around, anyway?
I've been using Mark-Stay for years. Never had it fail.
I've also tried the paint pens in silver and white, but as soon as the blade cut into the paint and water got under it, the whole line would pop off.
A while back, Delphi sent me a sample of a white marker that looks like "Liquid Paper". I haven't tried it yet, don't know if it would be any better.
I use a sharpie on float glass with a 10" Diamond tile saw and it works for me. As long as it's not a red sharpie. the blue or black hold alot better than red. Make sure your glass doesn't have oil or grease on it. Actually a grease marker is another thing we use.
Rick Wilton
Have used aluminum whenever I have a large number of the same design. Works very well, but I just never thought about gluing them down. What did you use as an adhesive? Hal
Try TexPens by Marks-Tex it's even stay to 2000 degrees. My son worked for a glass manufacturer and they use them for marking glass right out of the ovens.
tHAT51
What are you using to make the pattern marks with? Probably the old "Sharpie" trick. Well, there's a much better way. Draw your pattern piece on a piece of clear contact paper. Cut it out and place the contact paper on the glass, sticky side on the glass, burnish it in place and saw away. Works great on grinders as well.
Jerry
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