@@HowDoYouDIY Hello , sorry for my English ! how many Watt ( 150 Watt ? , 300 ? Watt ) has your soldering ıron ? Because glass needs high temperature to melt !
I practised this method but couldn’t get the heat to crack the glass in a line so I returned to using a diamond tipped socket and just kept moving along to create the length then used a smaller diameter to go back and smooth the peaks between the cuts.
This is a pretty tricky method to start the crack. When practicing it's helpful to use thinner bottles. Thanks for sharing your experience, and describing what you ended up doing.
Great video. The sharper a corner the greater the stress concentration and the more likely a crack will form where it's not wanted. Some of the first welded steel ships, the Liberty Ships, broke in half because they had sharp rather than rounded hatch corners. Due to the high stress concentration at the sharp corners a crack in the steel would start there and then run rapidly all around the hull. This is true in any rigid material. The bigger the radius at a corner the less the stress concentration and the less likely the strength of the material will be exceeded
Enlightening & fascinating!!!! Thank you for your video. I learned some of the “whole" tricks from a glass cutter at a glass dealer / distributer. I had to tell him what I needed, & couldn’t seem to explain it to anyone who could explain it to him, “Why don’t you just come on back & explain it yourself.” Bingo!! I suggest more rounded corners, & then file, sand, nibble away to a square corner. Use the file or sandpaper gently to avoid breakage / catastrophe. “Soft” nibblers from your stained glass tool kit, tiny little “nibbles”.
It can be a bit tricky to learn at first. I recommend practicing a couple times on other bottles before trying it on your main bottle. Hope it works well for you!
I only scored the straight line along the top. After the cracks is started, it will follow the soldering iron even if there isn't a score line. And yes, a 25 watt soldering iron should work. Thanks for asking!
This is the coolest thing! If I wasn't in the hospital I would be looking around my house for a bottle right now. I'm a new fan of your videos. Great explanation. Clear understandable voice. Great camera and camera angle. Awesome lighting. You better be making more videos c(: keep up the good work man.
As a professional glazer, I would use a drill bit designed for glass. Drill one hole in each corner then score the glass and continue as shown on this video. To remove the piece easily you need to score the glass diagonally from corner to corner and heat as shown. You will not get a perfect 90 degree corner but you could use a square stick wrapped in sand paper to square up the corner.
Physics/engineering: sharp corners act as focal points for stress which is why cracks then occur (checkout examples of early metal ship hulls & the de Havilland Comet...) - a radius, even a small one, is always best
@@HowDoYouDIY no worries: if you've gone to the trouble of posting a video, least I can do is supply some (hopefully) helpful information Note that a radius _reduces_ risk rather than eliminates it: essentially it raises the threshold at which a crack might occur One approach I've considered (but yet to try) is cutting between small drilled holes. I've a suspicion it might not work as well as might be thought, and that the sequence of actions (e.g. score then drill vs. drill then score) will also influence outcome
@@HowDoYouDIY Apologies - never said thank you! Using soldering iron hadn't occurred to me until I'd seen this and it's definitely something I'll explore
Have you tried drilling a small hole on each corner using a tile drill? They are only a few dollars and I think they would make all the difference to the finished product.
I'm sorry to hear that. Cutting thick bottles using this method, like wine bottles, is very hard to get started. I recommend practicing with thinner bottles first. Clear bottles with thin glass are the easiest. Thanks for the feedback and let me know if you can get this to work!
excellent idea and thanks for sharing. I only saw you scoring the top line, but not the rest of the edges. Is my observation correct ? If yes, that would mean that you use the soldering iron to crack the top line after scoring, then use just heat only to continue to crack the rest of the edges. If you were to score the rest of the edges using hand held cutter, wouldn't it be fast to crack the edges and result in more accurate crack ? Please advise. Many thanks.
Great observation! Yes, I only scored the top line and used the heat to guide the crack the rest of the way. From my experience, once the crack is started it will move about the same fast whether there is a score or not. But it can be more accurate with a score all the way around because the score gives you a groove to hold the iron on track.
The corners are cracking because Sharp corners are pretty much already cracks. Imagine a tiny skateboarder riding his skateboard on the inner surface of the bottle that you just cut. Any spot where it is not smooth and he would crash on his skateboard , that would be considered a crack waiting to happen. Also it's sort of like trying to rip a t-shirt at the collar. once you have a tiny cut in the collar of the T-shirt it rips easily. It's pretty much the same thing. Basically if you could find a way to round the corners instead of making them fine points you could avoid cracking. I'm a glassblower I hope these tips help you
@@HowDoYouDIY I would suggest first drilling holes in the corners underwater before you start your cut. If you use the small enough drill bit you would probably hardly even tell that the corners weren't Square. Also if you do do this method. Be sure not to breathe in any of the silica dust because it's extremely hazardous. All right I promise I'll stop talking your ear off. I hope these tips help you
Master Jeweler/Goldsmith here. I learned something new. love your bottle cutting jig. necessity is trully the mother of invention, I take off my hat. i like, OLE!
Very cool. These might make some really interesting bird houses. Get a bunch of different bottles, and then hang them on a tree. I wonder if the birds would like it.
so cool dose the thickness of the glass and shape of the iron matter I am battling to get a crack on a beer bottle i scored bottle with a diamond wheel
Thickness of the bottle does make a difference, thicker bottles are usually harder to do. Beer bottles are a good thickness to practice/learn on. I have noticed that the color of the bottle seems to make a difference too. Clear bottles seem to be the easiest. Also, scratching the score line into the bottle takes a bit of practice too. If it's not deep enough it won't ever start, and if it's too deep it won't start either. Try to pass over the score line only once when scratching it. I hope this is helpful. Keep trying, and good luck!!
That's a good question. I'm not sure if it will or not. I don't know if aquarium glass is tempered, but I doubt this will work on tempered glass, if it is.
What if the corners are saved until last? That or partially heating the corners then come back and finish last? Interesting video. Might be a good gift idea. Think of a ship inside a bottle with the cut glued back. If lucky, no sanding so the edges will match. Kind of have my doubts about completely hiding the cut though. Maybe paint the backside where the cut is. I suspect the cut would still be visible on the inside though. Something to experiment with.
Thanks for sharing your idea, I love your idea of using this to put something inside the bottle! One thing I noticed about the sharp corners was that they will crack eventually. If not while doing this then when you pop the center out, or sometime after. It seems like that point encourages it to happen there. But an alternate option is making rounded corners. I hope this helps!
How Do You? DIY I wonder if there is some way of stuffing the bottle with something to lessen the chance of the corners breaking past the “cut”. Something else I wonder about is maybe drilling a very small hole in the corners then do the cut. I have always thought a hole at the end of a windshield crack would stop the crack from getting longer. Aw heck, just heat the whole bottle in an oven then cut it with the iron! Think of welding cast iron.
You can import your ship from the bottom of the bottle. About half a centimeter from the bottom of the bottle. In this case, you will only have a circular cut. Hiding the cut in the bottom of the bottle is a little easier and less obvious
This is amazing!, I very much would like to make cups from glass bottles for my kitchen too recycle! I have a soldering iron too, but haven't really thought how'd I use it till I watched this. Thanks so much!!!
That's a really good question. I've tried to do this on the bottom of a bottle, but the glass seems to be too thick. I couldn't get it to work on the bottom.
Oh, I have another video about drilling holes that works on the bottom of bottles and glasses ruclips.net/video/vruWpGb5248/видео.html And here's another video I made where I drill smaller holes in a bottle with a different bit. I don't discuss the drilling much in this one, but I do show the bit that I used. ruclips.net/video/BDAc0ZWjVjs/видео.html Hope this is helpful!
When you score the bottle, you want it to make a line that looks more than just a light scratch. Only scored the line once. If you score the line more than once, the crack may not start. Also remember that the thicker the glass is will be harder too. I recommend practicing with a thin bottle. Also, clear bottles seen to be the easiest, but color bottles are possible too.
@@HowDoYouDIY Yeah, the drill bit I tried scratched the glass but gave me the hardest time to make a straight line without being all sketched out. Making the heat effect of cracking not possible because of lack of depth I imagine?! For sure I will practice alot! Wich color do you find the hardest to work with? Hey man, you're the best, thanks for answering me with all this! :)
I've never tried scratching the glass with a drill bit, so that could be. I've done this with green, blue, and brown color bottles. All of them seemed to be about the same hard to start. The easiest bottle for me to cut like this was a salsa jar. Clear glass, and it was thin.
@@HowDoYouDIY I have tried but I can't seem to achieve getting a crack with a salder iron. I have used a bigger one, more powerful and still no crack. Wether i score the glas once of manytimes over, the crack doesn't appear. Is it long to get a crack? What am I doing wrong? I'm very interested in achieving this so getting tips and advice would be very much welcomed! :)
I got a super thick milk bottle I'd like to turn on its side maybe cut out a rectangular hole I'd post a pic but my phone doesnt let me would this work for that type if project? It would have to not crack at all tho because it would be holding water.
It should work, but there are a few things to keep in mind. Thick bottles are possible but more difficult to get started. And you don't want sharp corners on the holes. For a rectangular hole, you can make it with curved corners. I would recommend practicing on some thinner bottles so that you can get a feel for the process. Another option of this doesn't work, you could use a Dremel with a diamond cutting wheel. If you do, keep the glass under water, wear a good dust mask, and safety glasses.
That's a good question. When trying to start the crack, about 8-10 seconds before moving it. Up to about 30 seconds of the crack is being stubborn about starting. After the crack is started, it varies, but usually a couple seconds.
@@HowDoYouDIY Thank you. I have a thicker, small milk bottle that I am trying to do this too. I am also new to soldering. I have a 30w solder that I tried last night.
Thicker bottles are a bit harder to start a crack in. I would recommend practicing on thinner bottles to get a feel for the process. Soda/beer bottles are usually fairly easy, but the easiest and thinnest bottle I tried was a salsa jar.
I'm not sure if it would do a circle that size. I would actually recommend using a diamond drill bit made for glass, like this: amzn.to/2FOkUji Here is a video I made showing how to use that type of bit to drill holes in bottles: ruclips.net/video/vruWpGb5248/видео.html
Now please solder the piece back to the bottle with a soldering gun.
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@@HowDoYouDIY Hello , sorry for my English ! how many Watt ( 150 Watt ? , 300 ? Watt ) has your soldering ıron ? Because glass needs high temperature to melt !
@@YAKKOYUN68 Good question. This soldering iron is 15 watts. It's not melting the glass, just heating it up enough to move the crack.
It called heat fracture. Or temp shock
I would like to do my own vidio on it and I'll give you a shout out on my channel dark science experiments. If it's ok with you
Awesome technique, thank you.
I used to be a glass blower and I'm blown away that this work!?! Wow! Can't wait to try it out :)
Thank you very much for spreading your method of cutting glass using heat .. I appreciate your effort to teach you to others .. Thanks again.
Thank you! Using this method to make planters out of my glass vases.
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Been looking for a method to cut a slice out some bottles and this looks perfect. Cheers mate
I practised this method but couldn’t get the heat to crack the glass in a line so I returned to using a diamond tipped socket and just kept moving along to create the length then used a smaller diameter to go back and smooth the peaks between the cuts.
This is a pretty tricky method to start the crack. When practicing it's helpful to use thinner bottles. Thanks for sharing your experience, and describing what you ended up doing.
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Great video. The sharper a corner the greater the stress concentration and the more likely a crack will form where it's not wanted. Some of the first welded steel ships, the Liberty Ships, broke in half because they had sharp rather than rounded hatch corners. Due to the high stress concentration at the sharp corners a crack in the steel would start there and then run rapidly all around the hull. This is true in any rigid material. The bigger the radius at a corner the less the stress concentration and the less likely the strength of the material will be exceeded
I really love this explanation of what's happening. Thanks for sharing!!
Enlightening & fascinating!!!! Thank you for your video.
I learned some of the “whole" tricks from a glass cutter at a glass dealer / distributer. I had to tell him what I needed, & couldn’t seem to explain it to anyone who could explain it to him, “Why don’t you just come on back & explain it yourself.” Bingo!!
I suggest more rounded corners, & then file, sand, nibble away to a square corner. Use the file or sandpaper gently to avoid breakage / catastrophe. “Soft” nibblers from your stained glass tool kit, tiny little “nibbles”.
Same happened to the BOAC planes.
That's a really good idea for making sharp corners! Thanks for sharing, I hadn't thought of that!
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Thank you. I've been searching videos for months to get the best idea to cut out a hole in a glass bottle. Hope this will work out best.
It can be a bit tricky to learn at first. I recommend practicing a couple times on other bottles before trying it on your main bottle. Hope it works well for you!
Thank you. At first did you score all along the area you want to cut or only along the straight line on top?
There's another doubt. Will a 25 watt souldering iron do for this work? Kindly reply.
I only scored the straight line along the top. After the cracks is started, it will follow the soldering iron even if there isn't a score line. And yes, a 25 watt soldering iron should work. Thanks for asking!
@@HowDoYouDIY Thanks a ton for your genuine response.
Awesome idea. Thank you.
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My dad is an electrician and I’m a stoner so it works out well :)
what would happen if you drilled a hole in the square corner? this method you use is very good. i'm wary of grinding glass with a dremel.
You're so talented and so creative in making hole on a bottle
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This is the coolest thing! If I wasn't in the hospital I would be looking around my house for a bottle right now. I'm a new fan of your videos. Great explanation. Clear understandable voice. Great camera and camera angle. Awesome lighting. You better be making more videos c(: keep up the good work man.
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As a professional glazer, I would use a drill bit designed for glass. Drill one hole in each corner then score the glass and continue as shown on this video. To remove the piece easily you need to score the glass diagonally from corner to corner and heat as shown. You will not get a perfect 90 degree corner but you could use a square stick wrapped in sand paper to square up the corner.
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Physics/engineering: sharp corners act as focal points for stress which is why cracks then occur (checkout examples of early metal ship hulls & the de Havilland Comet...) - a radius, even a small one, is always best
Thanks for sharing this info! That explains why it always cracks at the corners, but not at the curves.
@@HowDoYouDIY no worries: if you've gone to the trouble of posting a video, least I can do is supply some (hopefully) helpful information
Note that a radius _reduces_ risk rather than eliminates it: essentially it raises the threshold at which a crack might occur
One approach I've considered (but yet to try) is cutting between small drilled holes. I've a suspicion it might not work as well as might be thought, and that the sequence of actions (e.g. score then drill vs. drill then score) will also influence outcome
@@HowDoYouDIY Apologies - never said thank you! Using soldering iron hadn't occurred to me until I'd seen this and it's definitely something I'll explore
Have you tried drilling a small hole on each corner using a tile drill? They are only a few dollars and I think they would make all the difference to the finished product.
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I have an iron too but I never thought of using it for cutting glass. Interesting
It can be a time consuming process. I was a bit surprised that it actually worked.
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This video helped me score a 420.
Thanks, this is very good, I will get bottles and try this.
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I'm glad you like the video!
Thanks you have given me the answer to an idea I have had .
I'm glad this was helpful!
Absolutely fascinating! Thanks for sharing the technique.
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Thank you for sharing good idea! I will love to try.
I'm glad you liked this, I would love to see your results!
I just bought from your link. I tried many times failed! I think some area I am wrong. Cutting wine bottle is so hard.
I'm sorry to hear that. Cutting thick bottles using this method, like wine bottles, is very hard to get started. I recommend practicing with thinner bottles first. Clear bottles with thin glass are the easiest. Thanks for the feedback and let me know if you can get this to work!
Very informative video, I was thinking maybe a new way of cutting glass guitar slides, Thank you Sir.
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excellent idea and thanks for sharing. I only saw you scoring the top line, but not the rest of the edges. Is my observation correct ? If yes, that would mean that you use the soldering iron to crack the top line after scoring, then use just heat only to continue to crack the rest of the edges. If you were to score the rest of the edges using hand held cutter, wouldn't it be fast to crack the edges and result in more accurate crack ? Please advise. Many thanks.
Great observation! Yes, I only scored the top line and used the heat to guide the crack the rest of the way. From my experience, once the crack is started it will move about the same fast whether there is a score or not. But it can be more accurate with a score all the way around because the score gives you a groove to hold the iron on track.
The corners are cracking because Sharp corners are pretty much already cracks. Imagine a tiny skateboarder riding his skateboard on the inner surface of the bottle that you just cut. Any spot where it is not smooth and he would crash on his skateboard , that would be considered a crack waiting to happen. Also it's sort of like trying to rip a t-shirt at the collar. once you have a tiny cut in the collar of the T-shirt it rips easily. It's pretty much the same thing. Basically if you could find a way to round the corners instead of making them fine points you could avoid cracking. I'm a glassblower I hope these tips help you
I was thinking that it was probably something like that. Thanks for sharing info from your expertise!
@@HowDoYouDIY same to you. consider it a trade. Great videos
@@HowDoYouDIY I would suggest first drilling holes in the corners underwater before you start your cut. If you use the small enough drill bit you would probably hardly even tell that the corners weren't Square. Also if you do do this method. Be sure not to breathe in any of the silica dust because it's extremely hazardous. All right I promise I'll stop talking your ear off. I hope these tips help you
I appreciate the feedback! It helps me and everyone else that sees the comment. Plus, the info you're sharing is extremely helpful. Thanks!!
Amazing! I'll try it. Thank you, very much.
Very interesting! I will add "crackdragging" to my new skill set.
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Master Jeweler/Goldsmith here. I learned something new. love your bottle cutting jig. necessity is trully the mother of invention, I take off my hat. i like, OLE!
Nice idea
Very cool. These might make some really interesting bird houses. Get a bunch of different bottles, and then hang them on a tree. I wonder if the birds would like it.
Great appart from the big cracks at the corners.
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I wonder how this works, like the slow curve for the cracks thing makes intuitive sense to me but I dont understand it
I still wonder myself. I hope that some day I'm able find out.
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so cool
dose the thickness of the glass and shape of the iron matter
I am battling to get a crack on a beer bottle
i scored bottle with a diamond wheel
Thickness of the bottle does make a difference, thicker bottles are usually harder to do. Beer bottles are a good thickness to practice/learn on. I have noticed that the color of the bottle seems to make a difference too. Clear bottles seem to be the easiest.
Also, scratching the score line into the bottle takes a bit of practice too. If it's not deep enough it won't ever start, and if it's too deep it won't start either. Try to pass over the score line only once when scratching it.
I hope this is helpful. Keep trying, and good luck!!
@@HowDoYouDIY thank you it has yes iv noticed it to with collard glass
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Can you use this technique on aquarium glass?
That's a good question. I'm not sure if it will or not. I don't know if aquarium glass is tempered, but I doubt this will work on tempered glass, if it is.
Great skill. Very impressed.
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Cutting a bottle to make a drinking cup is as easy as playing with a kid, Thank you!
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What if the corners are saved until last? That or partially heating the corners then come back and finish last?
Interesting video.
Might be a good gift idea. Think of a ship inside a bottle with the cut glued back. If lucky, no sanding so the edges will match. Kind of have my doubts about completely hiding the cut though.
Maybe paint the backside where the cut is. I suspect the cut would still be visible on the inside though.
Something to experiment with.
Thanks for sharing your idea, I love your idea of using this to put something inside the bottle! One thing I noticed about the sharp corners was that they will crack eventually. If not while doing this then when you pop the center out, or sometime after. It seems like that point encourages it to happen there. But an alternate option is making rounded corners. I hope this helps!
How Do You? DIY I wonder if there is some way of stuffing the bottle with something to lessen the chance of the corners breaking past the “cut”.
Something else I wonder about is maybe drilling a very small hole in the corners then do the cut. I have always thought a hole at the end of a windshield crack would stop the crack from getting longer.
Aw heck, just heat the whole bottle in an oven then cut it with the iron!
Think of welding cast iron.
You can import your ship from the bottom of the bottle. About half a centimeter from the bottom of the bottle. In this case, you will only have a circular cut. Hiding the cut in the bottom of the bottle is a little easier and less obvious
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does this method work for cemaric jars?
That's a good question. I haven't tried it with ceramic, so I'm not sure if it will work or not.
This is amazing!, I very much would like to make cups from glass bottles for my kitchen too recycle! I have a soldering iron too, but haven't really thought how'd I use it till I watched this. Thanks so much!!!
That's called reusing, or even upcycling
I am stonished to see that this video did not pass one million views!!!
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Yoo did it workand how big is the hole?
Approximately how much time did it take you to cut the first shape?
Great video! Can this be done on the bottom of a bottle or glass?
That's a really good question. I've tried to do this on the bottom of a bottle, but the glass seems to be too thick. I couldn't get it to work on the bottom.
@@HowDoYouDIY Thank you for your reply. I have been trying to drill a hole in the bottom of a glass for a prank.
Oh, I have another video about drilling holes that works on the bottom of bottles and glasses ruclips.net/video/vruWpGb5248/видео.html
And here's another video I made where I drill smaller holes in a bottle with a different bit. I don't discuss the drilling much in this one, but I do show the bit that I used. ruclips.net/video/BDAc0ZWjVjs/видео.html
Hope this is helpful!
How deep must the score line be to work well? I have a real hard time getting the bottle to crack with the soder iron. :(
When you score the bottle, you want it to make a line that looks more than just a light scratch. Only scored the line once. If you score the line more than once, the crack may not start. Also remember that the thicker the glass is will be harder too. I recommend practicing with a thin bottle. Also, clear bottles seen to be the easiest, but color bottles are possible too.
@@HowDoYouDIY Yeah, the drill bit I tried scratched the glass but gave me the hardest time to make a straight line without being all sketched out. Making the heat effect of cracking not possible because of lack of depth I imagine?! For sure I will practice alot! Wich color do you find the hardest to work with? Hey man, you're the best, thanks for answering me with all this! :)
I've never tried scratching the glass with a drill bit, so that could be. I've done this with green, blue, and brown color bottles. All of them seemed to be about the same hard to start. The easiest bottle for me to cut like this was a salsa jar. Clear glass, and it was thin.
@@HowDoYouDIY I have tried but I can't seem to achieve getting a crack with a salder iron. I have used a bigger one, more powerful and still no crack. Wether i score the glas once of manytimes over, the crack doesn't appear. Is it long to get a crack? What am I doing wrong? I'm very interested in achieving this so getting tips and advice would be very much welcomed! :)
Have you tried using a glass cutting tool to score the bottle?
I got a super thick milk bottle I'd like to turn on its side maybe cut out a rectangular hole I'd post a pic but my phone doesnt let me would this work for that type if project? It would have to not crack at all tho because it would be holding water.
It should work, but there are a few things to keep in mind. Thick bottles are possible but more difficult to get started. And you don't want sharp corners on the holes. For a rectangular hole, you can make it with curved corners.
I would recommend practicing on some thinner bottles so that you can get a feel for the process.
Another option of this doesn't work, you could use a Dremel with a diamond cutting wheel. If you do, keep the glass under water, wear a good dust mask, and safety glasses.
How long are you holding the solder in place on the bottle? I cannot figure out if the video speed things up or not, thank you
That's a good question. When trying to start the crack, about 8-10 seconds before moving it. Up to about 30 seconds of the crack is being stubborn about starting. After the crack is started, it varies, but usually a couple seconds.
@@HowDoYouDIY Thank you. I have a thicker, small milk bottle that I am trying to do this too. I am also new to soldering. I have a 30w solder that I tried last night.
Thicker bottles are a bit harder to start a crack in. I would recommend practicing on thinner bottles to get a feel for the process. Soda/beer bottles are usually fairly easy, but the easiest and thinnest bottle I tried was a salsa jar.
Can this method be used for a circular hole size of a quarter on a liquor bottle ?
I'm not sure if it would do a circle that size. I would actually recommend using a diamond drill bit made for glass, like this: amzn.to/2FOkUji
Here is a video I made showing how to use that type of bit to drill holes in bottles: ruclips.net/video/vruWpGb5248/видео.html
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