how about a thin oxey acetterlene flame
i kno wee made some long stemmed wine glasses look nice buy heating the stem in
the flame on a blo lamp and twisting it
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From: Tom Fowle
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 6:59 PM
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Cutting large glass bottles
Ray,
My dad made a device to do that by stripping a couple feet of nicrome
wire off of an electric heater and wrapping it tightly around the bottle
to geti it hot quickly, then as you say dropping it into hot water.
The resulting cut edge was usually quite sharp.
It might be interesting to try it with regular wire
and a 12 volt battery but I wonder if the heat rise in the wire
wouldn't be so fast as to burn the wire before transferring much
heat to the glass.
Tom Fowle
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