February 20, 1994

The glass studio hot shop had two glass furnaces, so there was always one ready to be used with a full load of prepared molten glass, and one that was being fed with sacks of batch- a mixture of glass pellets and dust with assorted ingredients that need to be cooked at a higher temperature for a few days before it can be used. This turned out to be helpful one day when there was an issue with the pilot light for Furnace #1. As we used the second unit I saw this- the gas line to #1 was disconnected and had this flame on the end, which I guess was being used to burn off the gas that would have gone to the pilot light.