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Re: Voltarc-Hyde 6" ribbon burner
Posted By: SVP Neon Equipment In Response To: Re: Voltarc-Hyde 6" ribbon burner (H.Erickson)
Date: Saturday, 13 July 2013, at 2:01 p.m.
> I like working off one end of the ribbon, so
> the the 16" works fine for me. I have
> the 24" but rarely have enough big
> stuff to work on.
> The guy who taught me neon, Dean Blazek from
> Antigo, Wisconsin invented an all in one
> design ribbon burner , blower / gas / spark
> lighter with a foot pedal. You hit the pedal
> it lights , you do your bend , hit the pedal
> it turns off.> Dean frowned on using the ribbon for double
> backs, cheating he called it maybe. Its
> faster maybe with 15mm or larger , but the
> outside of the bend can get thin. I kinda
> figured that's where one of these 6"
> heads would be used,,,
> I think the novelty term also might have
> come from Dean. If you're bending alot of
> glass and putting out a variety of units the
> 6" head will be on display on the
> shelf. But its a free country use what you
> like . Our plant used to put out over a
> hundred units a day , a 6" ribbon head
> wouldn't have fit into that demand. Just the
> way it was. My one bench / art neon plant ?
> It still doesn't fit in, the 16"
> perfectly fine.Correction: Dean did not invent the automatic ribbon burner. Transco's former parent company Colite did (and there could have been someone before that point). Colite/Transco sold the plans and remaining components to Dean. Dean did refine it somewhat (although not very much) and started selling them to neon shops (mostly his students at first). Daco then purchased the rights from Dean and refined it more. Unfortunately, due to the type of air blower used, these burners do not flow enough air to supply a 24" head adequately.
If anyone is interested I have several of the automatic 16" burners available for a very reasonable price.
Personally, I use an end-mount 24" ribbon burner (Haydu Bros.) I can adjust it down to about 1.5" length, so I never saw the need for a 6" head. Those with a center mount 24" head can use it as an end-mount simply by making a single slide that goes the full length of the burner head.
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