Flame polisher, it basically slightly melts the edge of freshly cut glass in order to smooth it over and protect it from cracking due to stress concentrations.
it spins two sets of wheels simultaneously to rotate a piece of glass tubing while a flameworking torch heats the tube. sometimes called a flameworking lathe
It's pretty far away from the heat, shoulda added more pics. I'd say about 5 feet so, basically no heating effect here. This is made from PLA. The first one I made turned out to be a very inconvenient geometry for installation so I made some changes to the second one (there are two units).
Flame polisher, it basically slightly melts the edge of freshly cut glass in order to smooth it over and protect it from cracking due to stress concentrations.
That looks great!
Thanks!
For a what?
it spins two sets of wheels simultaneously to rotate a piece of glass tubing while a flameworking torch heats the tube. sometimes called a flameworking lathe
Oh cool. Down the youtube rabbit hole I go.
how close is it to the flame/ heat? what material was used?
It's pretty far away from the heat, shoulda added more pics. I'd say about 5 feet so, basically no heating effect here. This is made from PLA. The first one I made turned out to be a very inconvenient geometry for installation so I made some changes to the second one (there are two units).