Hot Head : reducing/striking questions

[Veebee]

Yes, yes Vicki, do show your results with Multicolour asap , I have a HH too and am reluctant to fork out on expensive glass which might not work in my flame!

Excellent thread to start!

Multicolour is really reasonable price-wise, though I appreciate that we can't keep forking out on more glass just because...

Even though I'm on a HH, I still tend to work quite hot, but if you find you work quite cool, then this is the glass for you!

[Mand]

I dunno about "hot" and "cool", my HH just does a flame thingy, a big fluttery-flickery yellowy one with foil collar on, and the other with the "mandmade" foil collar off - almost transparent with a blue flame at the mouth of the torch.    Is that right?  My glass does take a looooong time to melt onto the mandrel from the rod....

[Veebee]

That all sounds about right to me! And yes, it does take a while to do the initial melt.
The inner, dark part of the flame is unburnt fuel, the next, slightly brighter bit is where the oxygen (from the intake holes) mixes with and burns with the fuel  This is the hotter part of the flame. With the foil collar on, the large bushy flame is normal and the one you use for reducing.

[SallyB]

Thanks VeeBee for the bushy yellow flame bit.  I wasn't quite sure.  I'll have a go with that when I get time. 
I'm not doing any for a while until my new shed is ready.  Got a bit of glass in my foot yesterday from the kitchen floor so think it's time to stop using the kitchen.
I've been thinking for a while I'd like to see a HotHead section so I can be inspired by what other people are doing.
Sally
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[Krysia@No98]

...Got a bit of glass in my foot yesterday...

This has happened twice.  I keep a pair of tweezers on stand by just in case.  Feet don't half bleed alot.  More frequent vacuuming has helped