GLASS BENDER

Domain	Definition
Occupations	Heats and bends glass tubes to form scroll of electric neon signs according to pattern: Tacks asbestos pattern onto workbench. Cuts length of tubing required to form letters, using file. Holds tube over gas burner at point to be bent, rotating tube to heat it uniformly. Places rubber hose over end of tubing. Blows into hose to prevent glass from collapsing and bends tube by hand. Superimposes bent tubing on asbestos pattern to ensure accuracy. When letter or scroll has been formed, places electrode in each end of tube and heats with gas burner to fuse in place. Paints or tapes portions of tubing to separate letters. Repairs broken scroll by replacing with new sections of tubing. May charge tubing with gas [NEON-TUBE PUMPER (fabrication, nec)]. (references)
	Tends molding press or mold heating equipment to form lenses, such as speedometer and instrument faces or automotive lenses, such as taillights from glass rods, sheets, or disks: Forms lenses by either inserting heated glass rods in press mold and activating ram to press shape, or placing glass disks, preformed or cut from sheet, in mold and inserting mold in furnace to melt glass to shape of mold. May place weights on glass in mold to prevent warping during cooling. May preheat glass in oven to improve workability. (references)
	Places glass vials for levels on endless belt conveyor that carries vials through gas heated oven to soften glass and form curve required for centering level bubble: Removes filled box and bundles vials, hole end up, in metal cups. Carries racked cups in tray to filling work station. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: GLASS BENDER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-g-l-n-r-s-s"
	-2 letters: angerless, beardless, gradeless, largeness.
	-3 letters: agedness, baldness, bareness, blenders, danglers, dearness, debasers, degasser, deranges, drabness, dressage, eelgrass, enablers, enlarged, enlarges, garbless, gearless, generals, gladness, glanders, gleaners, grandees, grenades, largesse, realness, reblends, sendable, slanders.
	-4 letters: ageless, angeled, angered, anglers, badgers, badness, baleens, banders, bangers, bangles, bareges, bargees, barless, beadles, beagles, bedless, beglads, benders, blander.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-e-g-l-n-r-s-s"
	+5 letters: disagreeableness.
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