Specification:

Neon glassblower

Professional training

Content and procedure

In the first year of training the apprentices learn for example:

• constructing drawing and samples on a scale of 1:1,
• characteristics of fluorescent materials, noble gases and mercury
• the handling of mercury
• how to bend, blow, straiten and ream tubes
• how to handle the tools

in the second year of training:

• the correct regulation of bench burner and hand torchs
• the correct handling of fluorescent materials
• the electronic basics for the use of fluorescent materials
• the correct handling with elecrodes

in the third year of training:

• how to process glass tubes with a small diameter
• handling with vacuum installations
• what you have to consider attaching the exhaust tube and filling with mercury
• how to assure the equably of luminance as well as the accuracy of fit
• the correct indication of neon tubes

Professionalism

After completing their training the graduates work in small technical or industrial enterprises in single-part production.

Agitations:

• The manufacture of letters, writings, logos and figures made out of glass tubes by cutting and deforming in the flame
• Transforming drawings in front of the burner
• Installation of fluorescent materials
• Smelting elecrodes
• Evacuuating finished products and pumping them clean
• Filling glass tubes with noble gases
• Performing a test
• Indication of neon tubes with correct datas
• Regeneration and repair of used systems

Working appliances, tools and materials

among other:

• Tubes (clear glass and translucent colored glass)
• Electrodes, Phosphors, Noble gases, Mercury
• Gases
• Vacuum installations
• Hose lines, Plugs
• Drawings, Samples, Object lists
• Measuring instruments
• Burners, Gas tube burners
• Widia-cutting knives
• Heating wires

Job locations:

• Industrial firms
• Workshops

Further training

Possibilities for qualification and specialization

• Participations to courses, classes or seminars, e.g. about safety at work, environmental protection, education of trainer, material and bearing business, mercantile or computer literacy

Advanced training for promotion (after professional practice)

• Foreman of glass
• Engineer in glass techniques
• Engineer in science of management