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submitted 5 months ago by abc@hexbear.net to c/main@hexbear.net

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its kinda crazy...

how do you think flat glass is made. what if i told you they fucking pour molten glass onto molten tin at like 1000° so it floats & forms a perfectly flat layer & then slowly bring the temperature down until the glass has hardened enough to exit the tin bath.

that's crazy but what about pre-1960 before that method was industrialized?? oh, they would just literally blow that shit into a cylinder and cut it down the middle & reheat it until it became pliable before smoothing it out no big deal.

ok cool, any other ways? yeah sure, imagine a baker's dozen of non-lads (sorry but she specifies no lads even though some of the non-lads are clearly not pulling their weight...) dumping scoops of molten glass onto a plate where it's mixed with a fork before being smoothed out between two hollow water-cooled rolling pins.

ooey gooey molten glass, why do you look so enticing yet frightening....

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[-] allthetimesivedied@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

Sometimes when I have access to a big enough torch I fuck around with molten glass. Literally the other day I went through an entire $5 can of butane with absolutely nothing to show for it lololol.

[-] abc@hexbear.net 3 points 5 months ago

yeah this has always been something I've wanted to do, especially since I am constantly collecting new glass vials every month with every prescription refill but I just know I will somehow get a bunch of ooey gooey molten glass on some exposed part of myself & wind up having to explain that I just wanted to play around. a victim of my own caution negative

[-] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

fuck yeah

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