DIY Furnace for LIQUIDUS Glass!!!

[menty666]

I got the grabbers too, they're not bad.

[Din]

I've seen some legit seeming quotes from the yahoo answers page I linked that lab rats were unaffected in a room with an open microwave.

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...walled with whatever a normal microwave is walled with inside...

Research skillz.
Also this:

Maybe the radiation emitting device in a microwave can be taken out and used in open air near the glass?

...is fucking hilarious.

[DildoBaggins]

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Research skillz.
Also this:

...is fucking hilarious.

A girl can dream, you know.

Honestly i know that sounds dumb but microwaves can safely be operated while opened, proven in the link i provided, and all parts that produce the "micro" "waves" can be taken out and used on whatever theyre being used on. I didnt write this so that people could criticize how I write things or talk. Discouraging people from thinking for themselves and being creative, trying to learn more about what they dont understand and putting it to good use, makes you a real shit of a person.

I have no idea why I take shitposts so srsly here, when I've been a 4chan lurker in my past.

[DildoBaggins]

Look at this, http:// http://www.wetcanvas.com/for...d.php?t=358343

do you think that'd be enough to dip a blowpipe into and catch enough glass or no? Well... i mean i could this same thing on a slightly larger scale in order to make it possible if it's not quite big enough for dipping and catching yet, at least the designer/creator says its his gloryhole

[menty666]

You could certainly try it, and Mark's come up with some crazy DIY stuff in the past that works great.

Most folks here will never tell you not to try something, providing you're not going to hurt yourself or others (mostly the latter). Go forth, prove us all wrong and sell us a working microwave crucible kiln.


The problem you're going to run into is the return on investment. For the amount of glass you might heat up with a residential microwave emitter (you did specify you wanted cheap, so I assumed you're hitting up a tag sale for a used POS microwave), you may as well just do it in the torch. Crucibles break down fast because molten glass is caustic, so you'll be replacing those pretty often.


If you really want to play, get a thick iron pot to use as a crucible and consider making an induction furnace. Overall it might be cheaper R&D and less likely to accidentally cook your genitals.

[glassy1]

http://www.delphiglass.com/glass-kil...microwave-kiln

Put some thought into the idea presented awhile back. If you made a larger microwave kiln, not easy cause I believe it is done in a vacuum mold, that could be surrounded by 2 or more micro ave elements. Building outside case out of brick to hold temperature better with a top for accesses crucible. The rate at which you could get glass molten would be so much faster. Just cause its not available for sale somewhere doesn't mean it could not be done.

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[gomilobster]

Think a crucible kiln is pricey start buying the color to fill them all the time.

This.... I really loved this whole idea of having a bench top dipper myself, but when it comes down to it in order to have a pot big enough to make it worth while (product vs waste etc)... I learned the actual crucible kiln is the cheap part of the whole thing... When some colors I would want to use are 80 to 100 $ a lbs and I would need 10 to 20 lbs... for one color/run well... I realized that the glass would cost near as much as the crucible itself.

[MondoGlass]

Very good point. Well said. You could try making your own colour glass with a crucible and the right chemicals.