Effetre white (04) - is this another duff batch?

[Blue Box Studio]

I can see back in 2011 that there were problems with Effetre white being shocky, but a recent batch seems just as bad.  I've had it a couple of months but know it's not 'old' glass from my stash as I'd run out.  So far I've been through 3 rods, tried pre-heating in my warming kiln, and the way it was pinging around my shedio put the recent shooting stars to shame!  Other than pre-heating, any idea how to get some use from this (I don't need white frit)?  Well, at least it's reasonably cheap, would have cried more if it had been something a bit more expensive.

[Shirley]

Perhaps you got anise white by mistake

[Kaz]

Some recent stuff has been like firecrackers!
Kazx

[Jellybean]

How recent is recent? The pile I got a month or so back has been pretty perfect 

[helbels]

I am despairing of Effetre Baby Pink - the last lot I had was frit on a stick.  Went to buy more at the Newbury bead fair, but looked at the rod ends first and you could see the little tiny air holes all the way through it - decided to pass!!

[Barnacle Bay]

I can see back in 2011 that there were problems with Effetre white being shocky, but a recent batch seems just as bad.  I've had it a couple of months but know it's not 'old' glass from my stash as I'd run out.  So far I've been through 3 rods, tried pre-heating in my warming kiln, and the way it was pinging around my shedio put the recent shooting stars to shame!  Other than pre-heating, any idea how to get some use from this (I don't need white frit)?  Well, at least it's reasonably cheap, would have cried more if it had been something a bit more expensive.

And I thought it was me doing something wrong    - exactly the same fireworks going off here too!  Bought this batch a couple of months ago.

[Blue Box Studio]

Probably a couple of months and yes it's like firecrackers!

If the baby pink is transparent, I have 2 packs of the stuff and so far is OK - perhaps the next pack will be firecrackers too

Anyone found a use for white firecrackers?

[♥♥Tan♥♥]

I have a batch of transparent amber like that when you look you can see the air bubbles running right down the rod.

[helbels]

No its the opaque baby pink that's the shocky number!

[Blue Box Studio]

No its the opaque baby pink that's the shocky number!

Oh goody, just white firecrackers then, was worried my shedio would look like Neapolitan ice cream!

[Miriam]

If there is an air bubble running through the rod, you can preheat as much as you like, but it will be frit on a stick always. You could try and batch anneal the rods. Sometimes it helps.