For cracked repairs, you can crank up your kiln to 1050-1150, you'll find the glass will want to be with itself, rather than away from itself. The white powder is commonly, but not necessarily, associated with boiled glass, which you can see on your weld. Simply put, your torch is waaaaaay too hot, (you were able to push around the glass with the flame). Turn down the gas pressure. Source: Glassblower.
I've got an idea: You could look at it under polarized light to see the stress you introduced into the material, then anneal until stress is gone and show the result! :) Maybe you could even show the process of annealing in either slow-motion or time-lapse using some contraption that allows you to record it while it's annealing. That would be cool!
Also cody , when I worked at Corning inc. When we welded glass together , it was all CNC based but we used oxy hydrogen torches that would weld it but than there would be a flame polish that would usually ,(when set up correct) take away that white powdery stuff. Only when we didn't set it up correctly we would get that white powdery residue. If I remember correctly, its some of the silica (or The germanium version of silica I am for now going to call Gillica) that burns out of the glass and deposits onto and around the glass . Also when you cut glass and are using the correct blades make sure to inspect the cut , the cut should look completely ground , there should be no clear part to the cut , should be "frosted " looking. The places where you would see these tiny chips and clear parts on the glass is where "Seeds"(which are tiny air bubbles) would form. Because we produced optics this would cause problems in our ability to use the glass for making fiber optics and there would be brakes in the single where the bubbles were.
I'm guessing Electricity to run kiln + oxy acetylene gas = more than $30. BUT I also bet this video makes him more than the electricity + gas + $30. :)
How much oxygen acetylene do you think he used here? 50 litres? It's not expensive stuff... we're talking like slave labour in a big tank. You get nearly a thousand litres for about 100 Shitsvillian Pasos, or just under 75 Retardistani Rupees. The big cost there is the deposits for the tanks. That's probably like a 200 Shitsvillian Paso refundable deposit, though, so you get the money back when you take the empty tank back to where you got it. The electrical energy is similar; at 12 cents a kilowatt hour, how many kilowatt hours did his furnace use? If you have a 10 kilowatt furnace, then running it for an hour is 10 kilowatt hours, or $1.20. He only needed to preheat the glass, something to keep in mind... Perhaps he has a 50 kilowatt furnace which he ran on low temperature for an hour, costing him at most (but probably nowhere near) $6.00 in Australia... the price of a coffee?
Pre warming is not necessary i attach joints at room temperature all the time. When a check starts, heat the start point untill molten and chase the crack all the way to the end. Use another new joint($2) on a tube for a handle with some candle slot on it to keep it from getting stuck. Use propane instead of acetylene it doesn't reduce the silica or cause the silica bloom(the white powdery stuff)
propane also burns cooler so less chance for shock. I still run it in a pure propane flame for 30 seconds to preheat the work before adding OXY just to be safe. Also needs to be shoved back into the kiln after working it to run it through the annealing process to prevent thermal shock during cooling and strengthen the glass. The right way to weld a joint like this is have the torch mounted and spin both ends into the flame until both joints are evenly molten then bring them together in the flame. Pressing together, then pull out of the flame and apply gentle tension like you`re pulling apart while continuing spinning. Glass is really an art that takes lots of practice and observing. Definitely worth it to sit with a tube and practice until you can get a weld that nobody can tell ever happened. Metal seems alot easier to just farm weld stuff together on the fly as a novice.
Has anyone ever noticed that 'Codys lab' almost spells 'Ballsy doc' backwards? Seriously Cody, some of the things you do are amazing to us non-science types :D
Well, fire is just very fast oxidation so if you want to get technical, I don't know the actual numbers but something would have to be very, very cold to essentially stop reacting with oxygen.
I love how you can look at something most would look at as pointless or stupid and look at it and say "why not try?" This is just another skill to add to your tool belt!
You know some people would say you didn't really save $30 after you factor in the oxy acetylene, the electricity the furnace used, and the time you spent working on it and they would be right. But the knowledge gained in doing such a project and the satisfaction of a successful attempt is pretty much priceless. And that's not even factoring in the RUclips/Patreon income. Good Job Cody. Keep up the good work!
@@zpaniaa This guy has probably had his channel for a long time, even before youtube had changed it policies about minimum criteria for a verification badge. Now a days you need a minimum of 100,000 subs before you can submit a request to get the verification badge.
Sorry to be brash, but I recommend having a look at some glassblowing videos of making bongs or other similar pipes, they usually deal with attaching joints and fixing cracks seamlessly - among other things - and all sorts of other tricks you can do with hot glass in general. There are some really good tutorials out there that I think you could use in the future if any more of your glass breaks, heck, you could even make glassware you can't buy (like connectors, special joints, etc.)
@@Helveteshit he has almost everything he needs just a good bench top torch and a good kiln controller. hes got oxy and im sure hes got a propane tank with regulators
Hi Cody great video as always I think you should use that tile cutter to cut some rocks in slices see if you can get them almost see-through and polished up anyway stay safe and enjoy your day evening and night.
Also, I would've shut off the kiln and _left_ the flask in it. It was losing heat way too fast, and he spent to much time fiddling around with the torch. Also the flame was way too big. It only needed a tiny little flame, maybe a mm wide.
Yes Cody, you are correct about the big round flask there. What you needed, was the blowtorch blasting around the workpiece keeping it all at temperature, with a big wide flame essentially touching the entire workpiece, so that it keeps it at 800+ degrees, through essentially brute force, and then you come in with the OxtAcet torch withnits much smaller and MUCH hotter flame, and "weld" the glass. Either that or find a way to work inside your furnace.
CruelQuertos How is boos not mission critical? Liquid fuel that propels you in any other direction than the one intended, crucial to my mission, that’s a fact!
CruelQuertos Ain’t getting nowhere making booze with lab glassware. I would not be at all surprised though if Cody had a big old still up on the ranch!
That takes some serious skill iv tried working with glass before and it never seams to do what you want it to so mad props form being able to do it and even making it look easy
I TIG weld and Stick weld and found this incredibly impressive! I really want to give it a go. I know the properties of glass are extremely different from metals but you mentioned a weld 'puddle' and I would imagine you could add material in the form of glass "filler rods" assuming the same grade of glass was used to control the heat and puddle as you do with metal welding.
What if you filled the glass ball flask with sand or some hot medium to keep away cold air? Kinda weld it from the inside out if you had a reactive enough sand?
@@shanefoster5305 That was my first thought too. But the easiest way might be to keep the flask inside the hot oven while he's welding it (use gloves/long-handled tools).
oxy acetylene welding is one of my favorite welding it’s so easy no much noice going on like stick welding or mig welding I’m glad to see that you were able to fix something brittle and small with that kind of welding
It's great what glass gurus can do. In our chemistry department we have a glass blowing workshop and the guys work wonders in fixing glass equipment. I dropped a 5l separating funnel but only the stopcock and ground glass joint broke. The bulb was intact. So instead forking out ££££ for a new 5l. They fixed it instead for less than £50.
I worked in a light bulb factory a few years back in NZ the bulb body was spun under two burners which were feeding town gas, air and oxygen. The combinations of each of these gases were carefully set. The weight of the molten glass was used to merge to the flanged edges of the part which is called the foot, which was the part holding the filament. Each bulb sat in a steel cradle, sulphur dioxide was injected into the town gas, which put sulphur on the steel parts to stop the glass sticking to the cradles.
Reducing waste is always a good thing (much better than even recycling), especially when you can learn something in the process. 👍 (This is yet another example of two-hands-are-not-enough. 😒) Cody: "There's a white powder on [this glass pipe]. I don't know what that is." Cops: "Okay; we'll buy that. ¬_¬"
I've had some experience with glassblowing. The white powder is where sodium evaporated from glass due to high temperature. Putting some sodium chloride into the flame in front of the glass makes it clear again. And you definitely need a wider and a cooler flame for the big things. Usually propane-air-oxygen torch is used. Adsolutely did not expect this to work, nice job!
For the flask you can try to fill with some large grain sand like thing such as vermiculite to add thermal mass to slow down to cooling or instead of welding on a fire brick you can try in a bawl of hot sand to keep other side warm enough.
I have to wonder how many professional scientists see your vids and A: shart themselves over your less then kosher tools and methods, mostly the tools or B: envy your ad hoc approach and lack of fear or supervision
Money is tight in research, so it's common to adapt things meant for some ordinary purpose to meet a specialist need. When I needed to cut barium metal, I used some gardening secateurs and that worked well enough. I kind of enjoyed the art of re-purposing things. What made me cringe here was watching him test the strength of the distillation head with his bare hands. If it had broke, it could have caused some nasty cuts.
and of course professional scientists are not going to release a new pandemic while filming themselves. However I can imagine a scientist dressed in protective garb and mask shooting a video of himself saying, "Look I fixed the leak ! Thanks Cody's Lab " While his colleagues drop like flies in the background.
Super glue, dude. I use it for everything: repairs , band aids, canning, you name it. It also smells good too, and makes it easy to wind down after a long day at work. 👨🏻🔧
Super glue is strong but chemically reactive, so not a good idea for fixing lab glassware; it'll contaminate some stuff and be destroyed by other stuff. Glass is used because there is very little it will react with.
I once made a steel spinning top with a glass inlay, using a blowtorch to soften a glass disk into a pre-cut counter-milling. After a few shattered attempts, I found that the trick was to surround the workpiece with a heat-proof cowling (rocks in my case) that directs waste heat from the torch around the piece instead of off into the air. I effectively made a tiny little oven fueled by my working flame.
i follow a youtuber called glasslinger he uses a small lathe to make homemade vaccum tubes he´s a bit of an odd fellow but he´s videos on making tubes are worth watching
Lampworker here. you NEED a digital ramp down controller to anneal borosilicate glass properly, the soak times for everything below annealing temp down to stable temp are way longer than a straight crash to cold in any kiln ive owned. get a cheaper ~$150 oxy/prop bench torch. a lil guy. and some graphite glass joint jigs to hold those joints with. you'll be much happier. also you need a garage to reheat your workpiece as it cools like a weed burner or something on low to soak the larger pieces like your flask in to keep the heat stress from breaking it before you get done. I work in alaska in the interior and kiln garaging doesn't really work when the ambient air is -20f, when your workspace air is cold you have to add LOTS of heat.
Cody, If you want to repair glass in the future, I would suggest using a 'Double Ended" torch like is used to create Neon Sign glass tubing. I took 2 college classes in Neon. We used those and "Ribbon Heaters" for glass welding and forming. The gas we used was Natural Gas and standard air mixed, O2 under pressure from an old vacuum cleaner motor. Cutting can be done with a fresh, sharp triangular file, just scoring the glass, then a bit of pressure to snap the glass at the score. I had great success with my glass welding, but a bit of practice is needed. Maybe you could talk a local neon sign shop into letting you use their equipment, or they might have some surplus torches you could obtain cheaply. Good repair at any rate. I suspect the powder was a residue from the bottled gas you used.
The white powder is vaporized glass that settles on the cooler parts. You usually see this on fused silica parts, because that has to be heated to higher temperatures than pyrex. I assume, your part was pyrex and that you heated it way too high (judged by the white glow), that's also why the seam is so bubbly - part of the glass started boiling. If you have propane at hand, use this with oxygen for pyrex.
@@theCodyReeder to be fair it was hard to see you using the filler rod. I did not see it the first time i watched the video. After reading this comment i re-watched the video and saw you using it.
Cody, you should NOT put pyrex in the recycled glass box. The company that takes care of it cannot process fused quartz and pyrex, it just ruins the furnaces in some cases. Check if they accept it before doing that
Pyrex isn't fused quartz, it's borosilicate glass. I don't know if that's any better or worse for recycling plants than fused quartz or even soda-lime glass, but it's not the same stuff as fused quartz.
Pyrex® was a registered trademark of Corning Incorporated and their lab glassware and kitchenware was borosilicate. In 1998 Corning sold the brand name and the new owner switched it to tempered soda-lime glass. So glassware labeled Pyrex can be either.
Hi Cody'sLab!! I'm a glass blower out of Colorado! What you are working with isn't standard soda lime glass. Its known as borosilicate glass, and it has a coefficient of expansion of 33, rather than the standard 96+ out of soda lime glass. This means you need your kiln temperature to be between 1050F and 1100F. Working temperature is 2200F, so you don't have to worry about slumping at the 1100F mark. Usually I don't mess with repairs, but I am always happy to hook you up because I have learned so much from your videos!! You can track me down @Requiemglassworks on instagram or facebook if you ever need anything!
@@UCCLdIk6R5ECGtaGm7oqO-TQ you could be correct ,but I guessed they might not have been inside the furnace and with the current cold weather where Cody lives , the ambient temperature is sure to be cold
@@keiran5170 Ambient temperature is likely to be cold relative to glass temperature, yes, but the insulating bricks themselves won't hold any signifcant heat whether having been in the furnace, or not. You could probably blast one of those bricks with a blow torch and still be able to pick it up with bare hands within seconds of removing the heat source. They reject the absorption of heat that well. They will be at ambient temperature but without the characteristics of heat absorption necessary to draw heat from the glassware fast enough to cause cracking. It's like having a piece of metal and a piece of wood at ambient temperature in Winter: Though both materials are at the same temperature, the metal always feels perceptably colder than the wood, not because the metal is actually colder, but because of its heat absorption properties compared to that of the better insulating wood material.
Bringing the glass up to temperature in a kiln is probably less than a $1, cost of the oxy acetylene probably not much more, you can fill a 10 cubic foot tank for about $25-30 and he would have used maybe a fraction of that.
FYI the water inlet for the condenser is supposed to be the lower inlet closest to the receiving flask. This creates counter-current flow so you have a more stable temperature difference and a stable heat transfer rate through out the condenser. Love your work!
Ive also attempted to fix my own glassware a few times, rarely successful. The annealing process is definitely critical, watching your success has convinced me to either make or buy a furnace. Also I think you could have fixed the round bottom if you would have used the mapp gas/ blowtorch as the flame is much more broad than oxy/fuel torch. And if you ever attempt to fix a similar crack in glassware, start fusing the crack from the center/middle of the crack then work your way to the ends, ive had success a few times doing that but never when trying to start at the ends of the crack.
Does anyone have advice on a good budget way to pick up a basic distillation setup without spending a fortune? I need a way to recycle a couple of liters of Hydrochloric Acid/Hydrogen Peroxide circuit board enchant. I'm trying to follow Nurdrage's "no hazmat waste" guide on this enchant. I think I need a distillation apparatus, containers, and a hotplate stirrer. What should I look for? I have no meaningful experience with this stuff and a homeless vagrant's budgeting constraints. Chemistry hasn't been my thing. It's cool and all, but it is a means to an end for my purposes. -Jake
Thick-walled “high-borosilicate” from ebay has never failed me ;) I recommend the hotplate-stirrers from Maple Scientific. Cheapest I’ve found that holds..
*THIS CAN BE DONE BUT YOU NEED TO TWO TORCHES THE WAY YOU WELD CAST IRON!!! You take a large 1" wide torch think its called a rose bud torch that heats the work almost to red. This keeps the whole piece hot. Then you take your fine oxy act torch and do the welding. Also its usually done in a lathe with both pieces spinning with the large torch fixed to constantly heat. See Glasslinger on you tube the guy is amazing at making home made vacuum tubes and neon lights*
For cracked repairs, you can crank up your kiln to 1050-1150, you'll find the glass will want to be with itself, rather than away from itself. The white powder is commonly, but not necessarily, associated with boiled glass, which you can see on your weld. Simply put, your torch is waaaaaay too hot, (you were able to push around the glass with the flame). Turn down the gas pressure. Source: Glassblower.
Is that how regular glassware is made? I'm now curious on how it is normally made.
@@masonp1314 no its how a repair is done lol
He could also use a narrower tip size
@@brennonstevens467 that's what she said
Interesting to know.
I've got an idea: You could look at it under polarized light to see the stress you introduced into the material, then anneal until stress is gone and show the result! :)
Maybe you could even show the process of annealing in either slow-motion or time-lapse using some contraption that allows you to record it while it's annealing. That would be cool!
This comment deserves more attention.
I would love to see this
Maybe even *watch it while annealing*, if possible due to some weird contraption.
Good idea, that could be a nice video, but I think you comment lacks manners tho..
I understand. It was a very fast comment. I'm sorry, it wasn't supposed to be rude. I rephrased it :)
Also cody , when I worked at Corning inc. When we welded glass together , it was all CNC based but we used oxy hydrogen torches that would weld it but than there would be a flame polish that would usually ,(when set up correct) take away that white powdery stuff. Only when we didn't set it up correctly we would get that white powdery residue. If I remember correctly, its some of the silica (or The germanium version of silica I am for now going to call Gillica) that burns out of the glass and deposits onto and around the glass .
Also when you cut glass and are using the correct blades make sure to inspect the cut , the cut should look completely ground , there should be no clear part to the cut , should be "frosted " looking. The places where you would see these tiny chips and clear parts on the glass is where "Seeds"(which are tiny air bubbles) would form. Because we produced optics this would cause problems in our ability to use the glass for making fiber optics and there would be brakes in the single where the bubbles were.
I think germania (not Germania, or else it's an old name for the country) is the name of germanium glass :)
Your re-enactment was incredible!
_10/10 - IGN_
_"Absolutely Remarkable!"_
Some product placement though ;)
“Saved myself about $30” *casually shits molten gold in the toilet to see if it flushes*
He didn't lose the gold though.
I'm guessing Electricity to run kiln + oxy acetylene gas = more than $30. BUT I also bet this video makes him more than the electricity + gas + $30. :)
Half the gold he uses comes from him refining it
@@crushdino6442 and from his family's mine... He's rich.
How much oxygen acetylene do you think he used here? 50 litres? It's not expensive stuff... we're talking like slave labour in a big tank. You get nearly a thousand litres for about 100 Shitsvillian Pasos, or just under 75 Retardistani Rupees. The big cost there is the deposits for the tanks. That's probably like a 200 Shitsvillian Paso refundable deposit, though, so you get the money back when you take the empty tank back to where you got it.
The electrical energy is similar; at 12 cents a kilowatt hour, how many kilowatt hours did his furnace use? If you have a 10 kilowatt furnace, then running it for an hour is 10 kilowatt hours, or $1.20. He only needed to preheat the glass, something to keep in mind... Perhaps he has a 50 kilowatt furnace which he ran on low temperature for an hour, costing him at most (but probably nowhere near) $6.00 in Australia... the price of a coffee?
Reenactment of taking broken glassware out of a box. Never thought I'll see this some day.
Everything for 30 bucks!
If he didn't state that I would have wondered why he was recording throwing out his trash
For every day distillations. Welcome to the life of Cody.
He's making booze
Was looking for this comment. 🤣
@@appleh8terguy monetization pls, hes distilling chug jugs.
Lmao, i just heard him say that then went straight into the comment section to see comments about this lol
@@Mr_3raqi well how frequently do you distill then?
Nice NileRed product placement.
when is it?
nvm
0:58
I don’t think its a product placement
Yea, would be intact if it was a placement lol
Ya know, just for everyday distillation and such.
Legendary.
Hey, that moonshine ain't gonna distill itself...
What. You don't distill liquids on a daily basis?
Removing the head of one vessel and putting it on another? _Frankenstill!_
This is good made my morning
More like Franklin chan
Scary. Don't mess with Schott's creation!
Pilkington's monster!
Yet another Corning joke...
Jesus man, you almost gave me a heart attack when you attempted to snap off that welded piece of glass.
Justin Y. Here too? Wow.
Kasai - Sama Of course he is what did you expect
Yo I haven’t seen you in months!
Y are you here
Welp looks like justin is making his rounds again.
Cody’s Lab in 11 years: Can I use nanobots to improve my blood circulation?
The next day, the entire planet has gone full grey goo, and Cody is our god. Long may he reign.
Lord Cody XD
@@guerrillaradio9953 I, for one, accept our new over Lord
Hopefully by that time he has already published a video showing how to gold-plate his ballsack.
Scott Maday I mean I’d watch it
Pre warming is not necessary i attach joints at room temperature all the time. When a check starts, heat the start point untill molten and chase the crack all the way to the end. Use another new joint($2) on a tube for a handle with some candle slot on it to keep it from getting stuck. Use propane instead of acetylene it doesn't reduce the silica or cause the silica bloom(the white powdery stuff)
Everyone who has blown glass before cringed several times during that video (me included). Good job for your first attempt.
I blew a seal once
propane also burns cooler so less chance for shock. I still run it in a pure propane flame for 30 seconds to preheat the work before adding OXY just to be safe. Also needs to be shoved back into the kiln after working it to run it through the annealing process to prevent thermal shock during cooling and strengthen the glass. The right way to weld a joint like this is have the torch mounted and spin both ends into the flame until both joints are evenly molten then bring them together in the flame. Pressing together, then pull out of the flame and apply gentle tension like you`re pulling apart while continuing spinning. Glass is really an art that takes lots of practice and observing. Definitely worth it to sit with a tube and practice until you can get a weld that nobody can tell ever happened. Metal seems alot easier to just farm weld stuff together on the fly as a novice.
Has anyone ever noticed that 'Codys lab' almost spells 'Ballsy doc' backwards?
Seriously Cody, some of the things you do are amazing to us non-science types :D
Where did you get the second L from? One L in Cody's lab but two L's is ballsy doc
@@justinwolf3311 Hence why he wrote "almost"
That's super funny
😲
you look too much into it j
You did a very nice job. It didn't break because you did it right. Preheat, use torch, heat again then allow to cool very slowly.
Random Question: What's the coldest flame possible, and how cold is it?
Ow
What a fantastic question.
That IS a fantastic question! 🤔😳
Google-Cool flame.
Well, fire is just very fast oxidation so if you want to get technical, I don't know the actual numbers but something would have to be very, very cold to essentially stop reacting with oxygen.
Just fix it with flex tape
Mata Gamex you mean flex weld
Old meme
Memes
Good meme
weird flex, but okay
I love how you can look at something most would look at as pointless or stupid and look at it and say "why not try?" This is just another skill to add to your tool belt!
You know some people would say you didn't really save $30 after you factor in the oxy acetylene, the electricity the furnace used, and the time you spent working on it and they would be right. But the knowledge gained in doing such a project and the satisfaction of a successful attempt is pretty much priceless. And that's not even factoring in the RUclips/Patreon income. Good Job Cody. Keep up the good work!
Cody: Glassmaster, blacksmith, chemist, botanist, and RUclipsr.
Clearly a jack of all trades.
Having repaired glassware your weld best is done on a rotating base
how r u verified my dude
@@zpaniaa This guy has probably had his channel for a long time, even before youtube had changed it policies about minimum criteria for a verification badge.
Now a days you need a minimum of 100,000 subs before you can submit a request to get the verification badge.
I thought your name said "Papa Noel". That might also explain the verification.
@@zpaniaa I have no Idea
He straight up just welded it raw, no flux given....
I'm so sorry.
*golfclap*
You, my friend, are getting a sub for that one.
I would commend your word play, but unfortunately your profile picture is anime.
Goddamn it lol
1.6 million subscribers already!? Dang, seems like just yesterday you hit one million.
Sorry to be brash, but I recommend having a look at some glassblowing videos of making bongs or other similar pipes, they usually deal with attaching joints and fixing cracks seamlessly - among other things - and all sorts of other tricks you can do with hot glass in general. There are some really good tutorials out there that I think you could use in the future if any more of your glass breaks, heck, you could even make glassware you can't buy (like connectors, special joints, etc.)
Does this require special equipment that he might not have?
How do you know lmao
Good links? Are they for borosilicate?
@@Helveteshit he has almost everything he needs just a good bench top torch and a good kiln controller. hes got oxy and im sure hes got a propane tank with regulators
He'll also need a VPN lol
Like how you show the successes and failures. You make being a nerd, cool again. Shows everyone to not give up and at least try.
"Just for every day distillation." You know, just casual distillation that you do regularly.
Hi Cody great video as always I think you should use that tile cutter to cut some rocks in slices see if you can get them almost see-through and polished up anyway stay safe and enjoy your day evening and night.
Of course you can!
Its pretty easy using a oxyhydrogen torch. Just don't heat it up too fast...
The Elemental Maker on RUclips has been playing around with his DIY HHO torch
@@maxximumb You mean Carsandwater?
Youre better off using a oxygen propane torch for borosilicate glass
trying to fix all my broken glassware i can say that heating is up is easy- cooling it down evenly is the hard part.
Also, I would've shut off the kiln and _left_ the flask in it. It was losing heat way too fast, and he spent to much time fiddling around with the torch. Also the flame was way too big. It only needed a tiny little flame, maybe a mm wide.
Cody will you make more terrariums? I found that video very entertaining.
Also hoping for more, but it seemed from his video that it was his plan to do so
Yes! And an ant farm please
He made some in the past with shrimps and such, didn't work out too well but videos are still pretty interesting to watch ofc
And a brine shrimp update!
Totally shameless plug, I know, but I make terrariums as well
Yes Cody, you are correct about the big round flask there. What you needed, was the blowtorch blasting around the workpiece keeping it all at temperature, with a big wide flame essentially touching the entire workpiece, so that it keeps it at 800+ degrees, through essentially brute force, and then you come in with the OxtAcet torch withnits much smaller and MUCH hotter flame, and "weld" the glass. Either that or find a way to work inside your furnace.
Thanks man dude.
Anything involving curiousness, I find entertaining and glass is certainly up there with curiosity.
Recycle, reuse and reawesomante!
nothing mission critical, just your everyday distillation... haha
E T H A N O L
CruelQuertos How is boos not mission critical? Liquid fuel that propels you in any other direction than the one intended, crucial to my mission, that’s a fact!
CruelQuertos Ain’t getting nowhere making booze with lab glassware. I would not be at all surprised though if Cody had a big old still up on the ranch!
Emission*
Justin Misener Why not? I have a glass rigg that works great! Base is stainless tho, but if aiming for 94%, refluxing glass rigg is the way to go..
Love that your other glassware (Erlenmeyer flask?) with the ground glass joint is NileRed branded
1:09 it has Nile red written on it
EDIT: The flask
Haha :D Nice catch!
what else if not the flask?
@@josephgao4657U R welcome
have they done a collaboration? I cant remember.
Lol
Nice job. Attempting to repair the flask gave you some feel for working with the glass and made the other repair work out.
That takes some serious skill iv tried working with glass before and it never seams to do what you want it to so mad props form being able to do it and even making it look easy
"So in the video: Dissolving Gold Using Cherry Pits..."
This is why we love you, Cody.
I TIG weld and Stick weld and found this incredibly impressive! I really want to give it a go. I know the properties of glass are extremely different from metals but you mentioned a weld 'puddle' and I would imagine you could add material in the form of glass "filler rods" assuming the same grade of glass was used to control the heat and puddle as you do with metal welding.
I was thinking the same thing. But the rods may need to be heated as well. Or maybe coated with sand or quartz?
@@ListenYoungManListen perhaps you are right.
@@baronburgamot243 silica dust is used in certain glass bonding uses, could be a good bonding agent for the glass
I think borax and leather taning ointment & bam you got flexible glass. No shit. Or is shit you not.
What if you filled the glass ball flask with sand or some hot medium to keep away cold air? Kinda weld it from the inside out if you had a reactive enough sand?
i think the glass on that is too thin... so it cools and heats too quickly and its brittle
the part he successfully welded was very thick glass
I would think this would work except that you may end up welding some of the sand to the inside of the flask. Glass is made from sand after all...
@@shanefoster5305 That was my first thought too.
But the easiest way might be to keep the flask inside the hot oven while he's welding it (use gloves/long-handled tools).
oxy acetylene welding is one of my favorite welding it’s so easy no much noice going on like stick welding or mig welding I’m glad to see that you were able to fix something brittle and small with that kind of welding
It's great what glass gurus can do. In our chemistry department we have a glass blowing workshop and the guys work wonders in fixing glass equipment. I dropped a 5l separating funnel but only the stopcock and ground glass joint broke. The bulb was intact. So instead forking out ££££ for a new 5l. They fixed it instead for less than £50.
When your stoner friends break there 50 dollar bong
I'm a stoner getting High again TMR like I did today
So you turn it i to a $5 bong for them? XD
Then their not sure what you did they're
man a good bong will cost way more than 50 bucks, more like 150$
rebelyell123 _ i feel attacked because that is the exact reason i am here
Watch how bongs are made.. They are made in sections, and welded together.
I read "Can I weld grass"
"Oh gosh cody."
_Only you can prevent forest fires_
Been trying to weld grass for years, always just end up baked off my face
Not sure if it counts as welding but a good resin can keep your grass together pretty damn well
Is this the pyromaniac version of cross-breeding?
@@Andrew..J dang blades keep failing
I worked in a light bulb factory a few years back in NZ the bulb body was spun under two burners which were feeding town gas, air and oxygen. The combinations of each of these gases were carefully set. The weight of the molten glass was used to merge to the flanged edges of the part which is called the foot, which was the part holding the filament. Each bulb sat in a steel cradle, sulphur dioxide was injected into the town gas, which put sulphur on the steel parts to stop the glass sticking to the cradles.
Great video. Your strength is your ability to simplify difficult processes that others would not attempt!
Cody: "This should would for your everyday distillations"
Me, sitting on my couch high af: "oh word"
Reducing waste is always a good thing (much better than even recycling), especially when you can learn something in the process. 👍
(This is yet another example of two-hands-are-not-enough. 😒)
Cody: "There's a white powder on [this glass pipe]. I don't know what that is." Cops: "Okay; we'll buy that. ¬_¬"
This was very interesting !
I've had some experience with glassblowing. The white powder is where sodium evaporated from glass due to high temperature. Putting some sodium chloride into the flame in front of the glass makes it clear again.
And you definitely need a wider and a cooler flame for the big things. Usually propane-air-oxygen torch is used.
Adsolutely did not expect this to work, nice job!
Great result. I especially like the recycling bin reenactment!
GLASSWARE MAKERS HATE HIM!
Watch how he fixes broken lab equipment in under $30
5:41 *Melts tongs*
I read your comment right as it happened on my screen 😂😂
A tool has no character until it bears the scars of jobs well done lol
I read 'can i weld class' (i dont know if you can but please weld class, weld the school rooms cody, weld them.)
leave no room unwelded
So did I, I was a bitt disappointed to see that it was glass he was wielding. I believe tho! You can wield class Cody! Do it, do it for your peers :)
Ultimate prank is welding the doors of your trade school shut
I like the way the glass spreads light while you weld it
For the flask you can try to fill with some large grain sand like thing such as vermiculite to add thermal mass to slow down to cooling or instead of welding on a fire brick you can try in a bawl of hot sand to keep other side warm enough.
You can do anything you put your mind too Cody.
I have to wonder how many professional scientists see your vids and A: shart themselves over your less then kosher tools and methods, mostly the tools or B: envy your ad hoc approach and lack of fear or supervision
Money is tight in research, so it's common to adapt things meant for some ordinary purpose to meet a specialist need. When I needed to cut barium metal, I used some gardening secateurs and that worked well enough. I kind of enjoyed the art of re-purposing things.
What made me cringe here was watching him test the strength of the distillation head with his bare hands. If it had broke, it could have caused some nasty cuts.
C: A and B
and of course professional scientists are not going to release a new pandemic while filming themselves.
However I can imagine a scientist dressed in protective garb and mask shooting a video of himself saying, "Look I fixed the leak ! Thanks Cody's Lab " While his colleagues drop like flies in the background.
The clock ticking made me feel like Captain Hook.
Its a question of good timing and temperature control , You did an excellent work.
cody's mad laboratory sounds like you are back on point and good people giving you pointers i am relieved you sound happy k
"Just barely glowing red hot..." - you don't hear this everyday.
actually...
Not with THAT attitude you don't!
Super glue, dude. I use it for everything: repairs , band aids, canning, you name it. It also smells good too, and makes it easy to wind down after a long day at work. 👨🏻🔧
are you recommending Cody sniff glue?
he can even eat with no problem. chemicals don't effect Cody.
Super glue is strong but chemically reactive, so not a good idea for fixing lab glassware; it'll contaminate some stuff and be destroyed by other stuff. Glass is used because there is very little it will react with.
jojo would be wise not to respond and just let this sit here.
caught me off guard and made me giggle. and for that jojo, i thank you.
It also doesn't like boiling hot aggressive oxidizers, and cody tends to play around with such things quite a lot.
8:36 " I save my self like 30 bucks" 😂
I’m impressed. It even annealed properly.
I once made a steel spinning top with a glass inlay, using a blowtorch to soften a glass disk into a pre-cut counter-milling. After a few shattered attempts, I found that the trick was to surround the workpiece with a heat-proof cowling (rocks in my case) that directs waste heat from the torch around the piece instead of off into the air. I effectively made a tiny little oven fueled by my working flame.
i follow a youtuber called
glasslinger he uses a small lathe to make homemade vaccum tubes he´s a bit of an odd fellow but he´s videos on making tubes are worth watching
Hi from kurdistan-iraq i like ur vids. 😊✌
I like that you like his videos
I like that you like his comment liking Cody's videos
Your profile picture is a jew
@@malnutritionboy LMAO, yes it is, what is your point?
I like that you like that I like cody's vids
There is a man who can teach how to work with glass. He is able to make vacuum tubes. His channel name is glasslinger.
Lampworker here.
you NEED a digital ramp down controller to anneal borosilicate glass properly, the soak times for everything below annealing temp down to stable temp are way longer than a straight crash to cold in any kiln ive owned.
get a cheaper ~$150 oxy/prop bench torch. a lil guy. and some graphite glass joint jigs to hold those joints with. you'll be much happier. also you need a garage to reheat your workpiece as it cools like a weed burner or something on low to soak the larger pieces like your flask in to keep the heat stress from breaking it before you get done.
I work in alaska in the interior and kiln garaging doesn't really work when the ambient air is -20f, when your workspace air is cold you have to add LOTS of heat.
Cody, If you want to repair glass in the future, I would suggest using a 'Double Ended" torch like is used to create Neon Sign glass tubing. I took 2 college classes in Neon.
We used those and "Ribbon Heaters" for glass welding and forming.
The gas we used was Natural Gas and standard air mixed, O2 under pressure from an old vacuum cleaner motor.
Cutting can be done with a fresh, sharp triangular file, just scoring the glass, then a bit of pressure to snap the glass at the score. I had great success with my glass welding, but a bit of practice is needed. Maybe you could talk a local neon sign shop into letting you use their equipment, or they might have some surplus torches you could obtain cheaply. Good repair at any rate. I suspect the powder was a residue from the bottled gas you used.
1:06 Anyone else notice he's using glassware from another youtuber?
Nilered obviously
For an hundred comments, I thought I was the only one ^^
That clock ticking...
Cody broke his bong stem?
He had to get that fixed fast bro.
@@lotrnerd5037 I hear that
for not having proper tools you did a good job. Ive watched glasslinger's channel and he makes it look easy, using the right tools of course.
The white powder is vaporized glass that settles on the cooler parts. You usually see this on fused silica parts, because that has to be heated to higher temperatures than pyrex. I assume, your part was pyrex and that you heated it way too high (judged by the white glow), that's also why the seam is so bubbly - part of the glass started boiling. If you have propane at hand, use this with oxygen for pyrex.
You could have used a glass rod kinda like a filler wire
You mean like I was doing?
BUUUURRRRNNN
No like a tig weld with filler but it worked anyway so it doesn’t matter
Cody'sLab If you were, it was too dark to see due to contrast from the torch flame.
@@theCodyReeder to be fair it was hard to see you using the filler rod. I did not see it the first time i watched the video. After reading this comment i re-watched the video and saw you using it.
Cody, you should NOT put pyrex in the recycled glass box. The company that takes care of it cannot process fused quartz and pyrex, it just ruins the furnaces in some cases. Check if they accept it before doing that
Pyrex isn't fused quartz, it's borosilicate glass. I don't know if that's any better or worse for recycling plants than fused quartz or even soda-lime glass, but it's not the same stuff as fused quartz.
@@angolin9352 That depends on your location. Pyrex used to be borosilicate everywhere, but in America, the name is now used for tempered silica glass.
Alexander van Gessel
Pyrex is a brand that makes many different types of glass
Laboratory grade glassware is borosilicate
Pyrex® was a registered trademark of Corning Incorporated and their lab glassware and kitchenware was borosilicate. In 1998 Corning sold the brand name and the new owner switched it to tempered soda-lime glass. So glassware labeled Pyrex can be either.
You're all wrong, pyrex is what my moms pie dishes are made of lol
*Your nitroglycerin video is gone :/*
Ethylene glycol dinitrate is better.
I’m more than impressed. I didn’t think this would work at all.
Hi Cody'sLab!! I'm a glass blower out of Colorado! What you are working with isn't standard soda lime glass. Its known as borosilicate glass, and it has a coefficient of expansion of 33, rather than the standard 96+ out of soda lime glass. This means you need your kiln temperature to be between 1050F and 1100F. Working temperature is 2200F, so you don't have to worry about slumping at the 1100F mark. Usually I don't mess with repairs, but I am always happy to hook you up because I have learned so much from your videos!! You can track me down @Requiemglassworks on instagram or facebook if you ever need anything!
This might sound stupid , but maybe the flask was cracking because you were putting it on 2 cold bricks while doing it?
2pump Chump It probably contributed..
interesting
It looks like they're insulating bricks, therefore not 'cold' (heat-sinking).
@@UCCLdIk6R5ECGtaGm7oqO-TQ you could be correct ,but I guessed they might not have been inside the furnace and with the current cold weather where Cody lives , the ambient temperature is sure to be cold
@@keiran5170 Ambient temperature is likely to be cold relative to glass temperature, yes, but the insulating bricks themselves won't hold any signifcant heat whether having been in the furnace, or not. You could probably blast one of those bricks with a blow torch and still be able to pick it up with bare hands within seconds of removing the heat source. They reject the absorption of heat that well. They will be at ambient temperature but without the characteristics of heat absorption necessary to draw heat from the glassware fast enough to cause cracking. It's like having a piece of metal and a piece of wood at ambient temperature in Winter: Though both materials are at the same temperature, the metal always feels perceptably colder than the wood, not because the metal is actually colder, but because of its heat absorption properties compared to that of the better insulating wood material.
Curious if you really saved 30.00 when you cost adjust fuel and power
You can fill up his gas bottles for around $30 so I dont think it came anywhere near that
I guesstimate he used about $5 of gas and electricity.
Anthony Davidson
Then add in the Adsense revenue when the video goes viral. +$300
Bringing the glass up to temperature in a kiln is probably less than a $1, cost of the oxy acetylene probably not much more, you can fill a 10 cubic foot tank for about $25-30 and he would have used maybe a fraction of that.
well if the shops are far away you also gotta pay gas or shipping
RUclips Ad rev is down. This is what Cody has to resort too...
Resort to ?
resorted to giving us some fine ass entertainment.
FYI the water inlet for the condenser is supposed to be the lower inlet closest to the receiving flask. This creates counter-current flow so you have a more stable temperature difference and a stable heat transfer rate through out the condenser.
Love your work!
Ive also attempted to fix my own glassware a few times, rarely successful. The annealing process is definitely critical, watching your success has convinced me to either make or buy a furnace. Also I think you could have fixed the round bottom if you would have used the mapp gas/ blowtorch as the flame is much more broad than oxy/fuel torch. And if you ever attempt to fix a similar crack in glassware, start fusing the crack from the center/middle of the crack then work your way to the ends, ive had success a few times doing that but never when trying to start at the ends of the crack.
Why pay $30, when you can just master the craft of glasswork
Why is all of codys mine videos private?
youtube was striking him for blowing shit up
Excessive nudity.
**Reenactment**
when i started watching your videos, you had like 30k subscribers.
biggest congrats on your huge success, cody!
The way that tube glows like a lantern while being welded is awesome.
Yesn't
Does anyone have advice on a good budget way to pick up a basic distillation setup without spending a fortune? I need a way to recycle a couple of liters of Hydrochloric Acid/Hydrogen Peroxide circuit board enchant. I'm trying to follow Nurdrage's "no hazmat waste" guide on this enchant. I think I need a distillation apparatus, containers, and a hotplate stirrer. What should I look for? I have no meaningful experience with this stuff and a homeless vagrant's budgeting constraints. Chemistry hasn't been my thing. It's cool and all, but it is a means to an end for my purposes.
-Jake
@@danielrouw2593
Yeah should have mentioned I'm in Southern California. I'll look up "Home Science Tools." Thanks for the reference.
-Jake
Thick-walled “high-borosilicate” from ebay has never failed me ;) I recommend the hotplate-stirrers from Maple Scientific. Cheapest I’ve found that holds..
Daniel Rouw Nah, go search. Look at the specs and read, you might learn something :)
Dechem glass from.china on ebay, its great wuality glass and a basic distalation kit is 40$ shipped
@@94ToBor yep, Dechem glass from china i get and its thivk and good
but can you play Bookworm Adventures Deluxe?
What are you doing here beef stew
You already bullied dunkey what more do you want
*THIS CAN BE DONE BUT YOU NEED TO TWO TORCHES THE WAY YOU WELD CAST IRON!!! You take a large 1" wide torch think its called a rose bud torch that heats the work almost to red. This keeps the whole piece hot. Then you take your fine oxy act torch and do the welding. Also its usually done in a lathe with both pieces spinning with the large torch fixed to constantly heat. See Glasslinger on you tube the guy is amazing at making home made vacuum tubes and neon lights*
Few people could maintain any credibility when saying the phrase, "for everyday distillation". Cody is one of them.
*They Welded A Grape*
piss off, no one cares
The grape meme is rather shit tbh
@@Gartral whats your problem bro how bout you piss off and dont comment on my comment about negative shit
@@michealp4160 ok why did you comment that?
Shoo, leave with your overused dead memes
38 views and 103 likes, makes sense youtube
Saved 30 bucks. Says wont use it for anything critical. sooo...youre still gonna buy a new one thus you didnt save 30 bucks afterall...
A glass "lathe" with peripheral NG gas torches works great for tubular glass welding. And creative artwork as well.
I love that you don't waste things
bravo!