Interesting Link of the week- Melting glass with a microwave.

[Scott Novota]

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1004040/melt_a_frickn_beer_bottle/


Guy melts a beer bottle in a microwave and tells you why you have to heat a bit first.


Scott.
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[Eben Horton]

I have melted pyrex in a microwave.. by accident :eek:

[Brent Hickenbotham]

microwaves are becoming big in powder metallurgy, for sintering complex parts with a fraction of the energy that conventional methods use.

[Pete VanderLaan]

but to date it makes profoundly crappy glass.

[Mike Aurelius]

One of the kiln manufacturers is selling a microwave (the kitchen kind) glass fusing kit...:rolleyes:

[Brice Turnbull]

that video makes me ill and nervous from beginning to end. Yeeecchhhhh

I can't imagine anyone selling a unit to do that on purpose........

the most unnatural thing I have seen I think.:nono:

where's the little smiley face puking his dinner? I'd like to stick that one here

[Pete VanderLaan]

I think that the converted bisque kiln manufacturing industry would sell dogshit as a reducing agent if they thought there was a market.

There was this Czech guy Charlie Parriot was taking around a few years back who made microwave furnaces. As I said, the glass was really awful.

[Brody Shaw]

isn't that where the magic mountain was? in Czech.?
the famed all purpose wonder glass?

[Pete VanderLaan]

It was and still is on the Austrian/Czech border. and still yields up naturally occuring lead crystal glass for commercial purposes. It is not processed in a microwave.

[Brent Hickenbotham]

so your saying I could gather straight out of a volcano?

[Pete VanderLaan]

Watch it or I'm going to tell you what Ed would say to you.

[Brent Hickenbotham]

sorry, it was there.:)

[Wes Hunting]

I always anneal my beer bottles with the "Pizza" setting.:)

[Steve Stadelman]

Originally posted by Tom Marma
anyone done any research on IR heaters for melting glass?

I have an extensive line of I.R. heated furnaces available!

[Pete VanderLaan]

Jeez...