Every minute and a half, the table man rings a bell that tells the ladlers it's time to make a sheet. They dip their ladles into the jaws of hell and pick up 4 to 40 pounds of molten glass.
Ladles full and cooling fast, the ladlers run to the mixing table. They keep the glass in constant motion to keep it from cooling unevenly on the way. Trailing molten threads behind them, as many as five people (one for each color in the sheet) converge on the mixing table. Tread carefully, assume everything is hot, and if you smell rubber burning you better check your own shoes first!
