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See, I have a different take on this. I think that the job should be split up, it's a huge problem and a risk to try to wrap up all of these qualifications into
by jbob2000 8y ago
See, I have a different take on this. I think that the job should be split up, it's a huge problem and a risk to try to wrap up all of these qualifications into one person.
>"How do you get from a couple scratches on a piece of paper, to something you actually go use in a lab that you trust and is not going to blow acid in your face?"
Engineering. That's how. Instead, the academic community seems to want to rely on rockstar glaziers the same way a startup relies on one or two developers to handle everything from design to implementation to release.
Have the student sit down with someone who can draw proper technical drawings and specs. Then hand those proper technical drawings off to a glazier. Then give the finished glass to a QA person who will verify it against the specs.
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- Retric 8y agoThat's a lot of overhead when you just want one of something. But even then someone needs to know a lot about chemistry, glass, and glass manufacturing to understand if something is both feasible to build and useful.
- jbob2000 8y agoOver time, you could compile a book of technical drawings that could be reused and modified for future products. I'm having a hard time believing that every person who needs glass blown needs something totally unique that has never been done before; it's probably slight modifications of existing products and the occasional odd pipe/manifold.
- Retric 8y agoI think the most common 98% ends up being mass produced and they just buy that. This is only really about covering edge cases so they probably all end up fairly unique. Even knowing what is and is not slight modifications of existing products requires a fairly deep understanding when you're dealing with highly toxic substances.
- sk5t 8y agoCustom work is expensive--one can't just hand-wave it away and hold out for a polymath glassblower, no?
- magduf 8y agoThat level of engineering isn't economically feasible for a one-off piece of something, unless you're NASA and have enormous amounts of money to spend on a one-off. If universities were willing to spend that much money on glassware, they'd just pay glassmakers $750k or so, and wouldn't have any trouble hiring them.