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tilman
03-13-2010, 01:09 PM
just browsing the net and found this little gem. cool to see the old crude way of doing things. thought everyone would enjoy this/



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8DNYgbcSeY&feature=related
Bo Diddles
03-13-2010, 01:19 PM
Pretty cool man. Can you imagine blowing tubes that effing big, all day, every day?
And is the dude at around 2:25 holding a huge bubble? Sheeee-it.
cc_bob
03-13-2010, 01:51 PM
Around 1:20, those look like the large glass tubes used in old dairies.
Bo Diddles
03-13-2010, 02:02 PM
It sounds like they unrolled the tubes to make plate glass.
NUBBLET
03-13-2010, 03:09 PM
yeah plate glass , for windows
chayes
03-13-2010, 04:35 PM
Around 1:20, those look like the large glass tubes used in old dairies.

I have five of those here. They are made out of pyrex though. I used to fix em for a local farmer and he would let me keep the ones i couldn't fix. All i can say is it's a lot of glass and a bitch to fix em.
richsantaclaus
03-13-2010, 05:51 PM
Nice find - history in video - cool!
kage
03-13-2010, 10:39 PM
hella cool