I Built The Most Powerful Blow-Lamp I Could

I try to take my reconstruction of the "Blow-Lamp" as far as I can, doing my best to reproduce the capabilities of the tool as it was described in T.P. Danger's 1830's glassworking manual; 'The Art of Glassblowing'
References(in order of appearance)
The 'Mutus Liber'(containing depiction of alchemists using blow lamps):
www.loc.gov/item/10018432/
T.P. Danger's 'Art of Glass Blowing':
www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/...
Faraday's 'Chemical Manipulation':
archive.org/details/chemicalm...
Middleton and Knowles' The History of the Thermometer and its Use in Meteorology':
archive.org/details/thermomet...
Hero's pneumatica(woodcroft's 1851 english translation):
www.loc.gov/item/07041532/
Corning Museum of Glass Lampworking Videos:
• Lampworking in the 1800s
• Lens Making in the 1600s
• The History of Lampwor...

[@Dangineering]

Babe wake up, Fraser Builds posted

[@zamplify]

"I've hesitated to do this because it is insane."

[@enghel381]

i miss you buddy, post more please

[@cheeseguru1017]

I get a certain feeling watching your videos that I only get watching Primitive Technology, there’s just something amazing about watching you work and explain what you’re doing. The end result always looks incredible too, the wick cap alone is beautiful

[@marthinwurer]

This is insane. It's so cool bridging the technological gap between the medieval and modern eras with this renaissance technology!

[@amogusenjoyer]

Its so cool to see you solder with your earlier blow lamp, such a good way to show how useful it wouldve been back then. Also, top notch humour as always 😊

[@ignasmaciulis1095]

Wait, this thing

[@chemicalvamp]

"Tapping into that much energy Isn't necessarily as easily said as done." Verbal double take. 🙃

[@nomam9085]

this tiny candle powered distiller is absolutely adorable

[@ashurean]

This is one of the first times I've heard Hero's other discoveries mentioned. Every other RUclips channel brings up his vending machine, but no one talks about how much else he did

[@jakeeasterday1663]

Having also invested myself in designing and using blowpipes, lamps and their apparatuses for fine metalwork, I have a few ideas as to why the large wick underperformed consistently. Firstly, the wick on your lamp needs to be trimmed very evenly or be shaped to a slightly domed form. This helps prevent turbulence from the airstreams impacting stray fibers. Secondly, the nozzles need to be cones with a much gentler taper, so that the resulting jets run fairly close to parallel to one another. This is why two nozzles outperformed three. Finally, I would locate the "sweet spot" for your lamp, which tends to place the orifice of each pipe less than a mm above the top of the wick and practically immersed in the fire, preserving a more laminar cone of flame. This proximity is where the many accounts of assay blowpipes being clogged with soot come from. The conducted heat will probably be hot enough to melt your solder joints, but a harder solder will remedy that!

[@trainiumm]

the Steve Mould joke at

[@felixer80]

Laboratory glassware and an upcoming alchemy video?! I can't wait!

[@unusualfabrication9937]

extremely underrated channel

[@benhoward2619]

Fun to see that one of the first proper glassblowing projects you make with the new lamp is a moonshine still!

[@adamwest6499]

This channel is such a gem.

[@caseyc3686]

4:20

[@nikthetrickster9948]

Mate you have no idea how much I enjoy your videos, you're probably the only RUclipsr whose content makes me go "I definitely have to watch this one".

[@bearnaff9387]

Every day we come closer to that weird achievement - an extended video essay that illustrates how one could move from an early Victorian scientific workshop and eventually build a very simple digital computer. I am serious. There are videos on making your own vacuum tubes of differing capabilities, and other videos on how to build a simple computer out of tubes. Videos like this, showing what making the needed tools looks like, are just another piece of the puzzle.

[@andreandrade3083]

Fraser it is so refreshing to see content with this level of quality on youtube, the amount of entertainment and educational value your videos contain is amazing. I hope you know you are amazing, and we’ll be pleased to see more!