Nortel Bead Liner
Our bead press made it’s major public debut at Bead and Button in Milwaukee. It was also featured by many vendors at the Glass Artists’ Society Conference in Corning and again at the International Society of Glass Beadmakers’ annual conference in Florida.

This new bead core lining tool has innovative and unique features to enable quick and easy tool changes for a large range of liner sizes. The machine comes complete with a variety of sizes of ball-style forming tools for core liner sizes 1/8 up to 1/2 inch diameter. Larger sizes also available soon.
Useful stuff to know:
Uses Brass, Copper, Sterling or Fine Silver tubing. Cut and anneal the tubing first
Cut tubing approximately 1/8 longer than the width of the bead hole – but beads with a more pronounced “dimple” will take longer tubes. A little experimenting will show you show you how much you can vary this. It is quite forgiving.
The tube or liner can be removed if you need to (i.e. wrong length) by gently cutting through it with a jeweler’s saw (small hacksaw with a very fine blade).

Also forgiving of less than perfect bead holes. Holes with raised areas can also be smoothed with a tapered grindstone.
Should be bolted to the bench/table for stabilty.
Built-in Tool holder – can also be switched to the other side.
Adjustable handle.
For Orders, Inquiries: service@nortelmfg.com
Temporarily Closed Due to Covid-19
COVID-19 CLOSURE NOTICE
We have closure directives from both our Canadian Federal and Ontario Provincial leaders. Yes, this situation causes great hardship to many businesses and families and Nortel is no exception. Nortel must make the difficult decision to remain shuttered. I have struggled, and we could search between the lines of ESSENTIAL services to give an opportunity to open with skeleton crew but in all moral conscience that would not be the Nortel way. It is with great commitment and determination that Nortel staff feel we must heed the message “STAY HOME, STAY SAFE, and STOP the SPREAD” We too must do our part for our staff, families and our community during this unprecedented time. We will continue to work from home responding to emails etc.
This is one of the most challenging yet most important Nortel announcements I have ever written. The support of our customers has always been the strongest part of Nortel. Nortel will most certainly treasure each and every order and look forward and commit to hard work and pushing to swiftly ship all orders as soon as we are able. Our website will remain active with updates and the shopping cart is ready to take your orders. Each order awaiting our return will bring a welcome smile and our Nortel signature sample with every order will be stepped up a notch to show our appreciation for your patience and support.
Thank you – Please STAY SAFE
Jean Robichaud
Nortel Mfg. Ltd
2019 Holiday Hours

Happy Holidays from all of us here at Nortel! Thank you for all of your support over the years. We would like to take this opportunity to wish you and your families a happy and healthy holiday season.
Online orders: If you place an online order while we are closed, we will respond and ship as soon as we are back in the office. Emails will be responded to on the next business day that we are open. Thank you for your understanding and patience.
Holiday Hours:
Dec 23: 8:30 to 5pm
Dec 24: 8:30 to 2pm
Dec 25 through to 29th – Closed
Dec 30th: 8:30 to 5pm
Dec 31st: 8:30 to 2pm
Jan 1st: Closed
Jan 2nd: Back to regular hours.