company, mostly for artists. We did do some work for MIT, at the time it seemed quite odd that scientist types would want a glass furnas. But due to my recent dreams and nightmares, all has become clear. I guess they had/have a program for those who use that kind of stuff, what it takes to make those flask thingys. I bet their sure is some wierd bloby too thick to thin science apperatus out there. Most of my experience with blowing is benchwork or hot glass but have done a little warm glass or flameworking. The tee seal of which you speak can be tricky, its all about even heating. In the fabrication of neon signage ,the little u shaped thing w/ two little burners faceing each other, spaced about 4-3in apart, is held in hand (tipping torch) and rotated around tubes makes the even heating thing alot easier. Used to make down and dirty pipes with mapp gas torch, really like the self\click start(burns hotter than propane and there is very little carbon traping) Two of these guys facing each other could be getto= to tipping torch, but rotating the glass not the torch would kind of limiting. Ya'll praw'ly know this but a bucket of vermiculite makes a good insulater fer dem thicker or complicated assemblys. Oh yea, those flameworking torches aren't to expensive last time I was around that stuff, a starter model the ones that are bench mounted with supplied oxygen for the extra cool pyrex option. If ya' like writting alot of big checks and swiping mucho plastic you could convince some fool ta build ya ceramic tub(Azs or fused silica\alumina poured molten now thats hot with lots of 12.00$ bricks piled up around it)to keep the glass in. Under no circumstanes ever entertaint this thought but getting a mapp gas torch, tweezers etc. and some tubing that sounds like fun. How does it go....Super cooled liquid that is semi stable at room temp. Glass?