Concept to glassware
A lot of our work begins with an email request or an inquiry over the phone. If the work falls within our purview, we'll ask a few questions, as well as ask for a rough sketch or photograph. We see quite a range of sketches and working drawings, including napkins and hand-waving over the phone. Technically proficient drawings with tight tolerances are routine as well. Sending us your photos are particularly helpful for repair work, as each repair is a unique event which your photo can help illustrate for quote purposes. Click on the photos below for more.... |
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Below is a sketch we received as a Word document...! The two bits of info we got with this were its height restriction of 300mm and a call for #40 oring joints. On the right, the end product, a soxhlet extractor for processing molecular sieve material.![]()
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"Once again, Adams and Chittenden came through. I needed a custom soxhlet extractor for a project we were working on. We talked about what I was looking for and how I wanted it to work and they quickly translated those ideas and concerns into a functional piece of equipment. It works well and looks great." Harrison Stockton |
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The small jacketed reactors pictured below were also produced from very minimal information; again, basically two parameters shown in the sketch on the left. This sketch helped to get it right the first time, even though the scale is not accurate. |
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See a comment from a happy cyclone customer |
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There are a number of surface treatments for glass such as;
Silanizing
Etching and sandblasting
Adhesives
Decaling
Organometallic coating; see a sample of gold coating.
Amberizing for light sensitive compounds is becoming difficult to source domestically.
Some sizes of borosilicate amber tubing are available as well.
We can coat glassware with a thermoplastic covering to protect the surface, and to contain the contents and shards in case of disaster.