How To Repair Broken Glass With Fire.
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- @InTylerable DIY TUTORIAL
LIFE HACK: DIY How-to repair a broken glass pipe, bowl, slide, stem and more! Step by step video about how to blow your broken piece back together with a propane torch.
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Cool deal. I just smoothed out a fissure with my propane torch. I was cleaning it and went hot to cold to quick and pop. But thanks to this my bubbler was saved.
That is great! I'm happy It finally worked for someone! I learned from chemistry class. I learned how to work with the thin glass tubing, Realized it was the same glass as a pipe, and I kept experimenting with glass and fire untill I understood everything. ( not recommended,! RESEARCH EVERYTHING! don't be stupid! I'm lucky I have my eyes!) It is a lot of fun thou....
bought a bong today, first glass bong i ever owned, just dropped the bowl and broke it how high i got smoking on it. already fixed it with a torch it's 100% now
no it didn't last and my torvh is weak
fogaco Vitor lol what a jack,ass
Akira Kush sees pink lips when he pi____.
Akira Kush Cheap ass just fork out 5 10$ for a bowl!
THANKS! I've been meaning to make some aesthetic improvements to my piece. Keep making awesome videos man!
Right on. My bf broke so many bubble bongs on me. By accident of course. I got tired of buying new ones. So thought about asking google if I can fix it myself. Thanks dude
Oh shoot. Didn't realize that he was logged in. Thought this was my account
I bought a new 18mm bowl and it’s airflow hole was small so after watching this I’ve burn the bowl where the flower goes and force my point honey scoop to make a hole better for air flow I burn the bowl again after for any chips
crazy, surprised it worked, kudos
It's cool, I figured it out. You aren't obligated to teach me how to blow glass, so no apology is necessary :)
Thanks for taking the time to post the content. It would’ve been kind of good if you would’ve explained something.
HEY! do you think I could use this method to append a little glass frog to the outer chamber of my bong?
@brstone2002 Thanks for the good info! I had no idea about the toxic fumes produced from blowing glass, I'm still here tho so that's good. I am obviously not a professional and really appreciate the input from someone with experience. Thanx again! -inTylerable
Thanks youuuuu!!!! The dickhead you see in my pfp broke my favorite pipe and I do NOT want to lose this one, it's so beautiful. And that's coming from a hardcore bong lover I have like 5% interest in pipes overall, so this blue beauty is SPECIALLLL lol
Sorry to hear that, I'm sorry I missed your comment. I hope it worked out for you.
@@InTylerable never did it, friend I know with a torch excommunicated me so I ended up throwing it away and buying another 😂
Boros melting point is 3300 degrees. Propane is hot enough to do it really really really really really slowly. We regularly use torches that burn much, much hotter when we are blowing glass for real.
did you anneal the glass? how did you keep it from cracking when it cooled down?
The heating and cooling causes mechanical stress in the glass, without annealing (like in a kiln), it tends to crack when cold...this may not show in small thin pieces, but the bigger/thicker they get, the worse the cracking problem will become...
I mean he could of used some hand / arm protection ya, but Ive done the same thing to fix my glass Dabber. Great Job with the bowl man! if u blew glass... then you'd probably be kinda impressed by how smooth that seemed to have come out for some one just making a tutorial.
How do you keep the glass from cracking when introducing it to the flame? I accidentally exploded glass once when trying to repair it, so obviously i need some tips.
Was the glass cold?
@@blokkablokka had to be heat it up before u torch it
I have a small pipe where a little piece of glass chipped off right near the center of bowl hole and i have another one similar to the one in this video and the bottom of the bowl shattered... both in the same day!
You should be using MAPP gas instead of propane. It burns 600-800 degrees hotter, melts the glass faster and better so you know you'll have a good bond between pieces.
What if it has a big crack on the top of it and a small hole on the bottom of the piece? Can heat fix the hole and the crack? I don't want to mess the shape of the piece because the broken part is green spider man.
i am a real professional glassblower in the midwest and first off pyrex is in no way shape or form plastic...it is borosilicate glass...google it if u dont believe me...second off i use to blow glass like this years ago when i first started learning...u do a good job of fixing that piece, but people need to know how dangerous it is to blow glass without proper ventilation...hot glass gives off very toxic fumes that can kill you...use proper ventillation..and mapp gas is way better than propane
Yes I have done that several times, just make sure the whole piece is hot then concentrate the heat on the crack and it will disappear.
geoff you have to get the hole aligned when you refuse them. you could also put it on a thinner metal mandrel to make sure it doesn't close up, then pull it out when it's fused. also i'm surprised you had no cracking without a gradual cooling cycle
I have done a fair bit of lampworking/pipemaking myself and to me this looks like a good way of fixing your pipe without paying a hefty fee. I do not take any responsibility for you hurting yourself but I find it unlikely you will if you do this.
Would this metthod close a hole about 3millimeters thick? My piece broke at the neck of the bowl and left two very clean peices. But the hole is really small will it get hot enough to close it?
The video was shot in one continuous shot, you can get the estimates from the video. Cooling takes approx 20 min.
Thanks I just broke my bubbler (Sherlock style) and ive been wondering how I was going to fix it or just pitch it. Thank you
I actually did this on a thick sherlock I had that broke in the middle, but after I stuck it together I melted parts of a super thin piece that had broken a while ago. The next day I knocked it off my desk and it hit my guitar, and the spot I had welded together didn't break, but the cracks I got in it from heating it up too quickly did. Now it's in about 5 pieces and I'm done.
@mikeandike1327 Propane is sufficient. I used a small camping style tank with a torch head.
Bro, thanks for the posting this. I would add that you *cant stress it enough* how you need to *evenly heat the body* of the glass you're working with to almost glowing red for the newer dab rigs. If you were to heat it like you did in this video it would snap, crackle, and pop into half a dozen shards.
Im also wondering if you still alive 8 years on? Everyone so concerned about "toxic" fumes and all. Lol Maybe if you were doing this in a 3x5 closet with the door closed or something. The "toxic" fumes are negligible for just fixing one piece. Unless its dirty, oily, or other hazardous contaminants the glass.
I use some cheap thick foil pans, like you can get at a Dollar Tree or some sh*t, to make a nice holder that can cradle the piece below where youre working.
@inTylerable wow. thank god your still here, thanks for the advice man.
thanks for the tutotial i fixed my dabbing rig now i can dab :)
My banger broke and I’m trying to fix it let’s see how it goes 😂😂
Would this work for fusing a larger broken chamber back together? or would this only work on a small scale?
Hundred dollar wearable sea horse/functioning bowl. I had it new was offered to get paid for saving a rare expensive piece but last second slipped and all was fun anyway but its was broken in two spots at first now forget it and almost if i was alone and had taken more time for proper tools, i used wooden laundry clothes pins and they kept catching on fire holding it .
Why is it that nobody on you tube knows how to amplify their audio before they upload their inaudible video? A person could also employ a microphone.
Agree with you on the first part and I too cannot get captions. Perhaps he has control over those and figures anyone who cannot hear can read lips.
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so I have a buckets quarts nail broke from where the bucket attaches to the rest of the glass will this work or will I need a smaller torch considering the size
I'm a glassblower and wouldn't recommend working glass with a propane torch as it doesn't get quite hot enough for quality seals.
i have two broken glass tubes can i fuse them together with a torch?
so i have a pipe of similar size that i recently bought but i have 2 circular cracks going around the bowl area, is that possible to fix or should i use it till it breaks a chuck it to the trash?
Keyshaun Spratley yo Keyshaun, remember your pipe you broke 3 years ago? and you came to this video hoping you could fix it? i wonder if your life is worse than it was when you wrote this comment. it’s quite possible that you might be dead, and your comment will be here until the internet is taken offline...pretty intense.
hey, i have a really nice steamroller that i broke recently, the pieces arent shattered, they broke into fixable pieces, but the question i have is, with this method can you burn the bowl back with the rest of the piece? the bowl didnt shatter, the bowl just broke off luckily, thank you
so my friends bong broke on the inside. its a blaze glass tower bong. the bottom perk broke off from the inside, would that be fixable?
hey @inTylerable i have the same problem as @XryanX0012 my black leaf triple perc tipped over snapping off the middle perc off and its just laying inside the chamber still in one piece, but i came up with the idea of using a wine bottle cutter and boiling water to open my 26" 5mm bongs tube.im still waiting for the cutter in the mail but i would like to know if your propane torch method would be able to melt the tree perc back in place and after melt the tube back as well.
Can one be made out of metal
I'm not sure what you mean.
I'm sorry. I am a glass blower who works only in boro. What you have managed to create is called a cold seal. A technique we use often when we want to temporarily attach two pieces of glass together, that we can then separate with a light tap. A lot of glass blowers refuse to fix broken pieces because it can be insanely difficult with many modifying factors. Your propane sans oxygen(or air injection) will never get hot enough. If you lived near me I would show you it in person.
Question...how is that not sealed shut? When u smelt the two together how is the tunnel still open to inhale?
+Geoff blank Because the glass was not that hot/soft and because he didn't push them together that hard.
Fusing temperature is lower than shaping temperatures. It's only partially molten when you're fusing like this.
In most bends and tubing pieces the artist uses a blowhose and cork to keep the pressure inside the tube to keep it from collapsing on itself. Really all depends on the joint connection
@inTylerable if the glass on the piece is frosted do you think it would discolor?
how long would you say this whole project took to complete with the initial heating of the glass, as well as the period of time it took to get hot enough to mend back together plus cooling thanks.
Worked perfectly the first time!! Thanx, always been interested in this type of thing, how do you learn to blow glass?? Just curious :)
alone....the torches we use profesionally burn propane and oxygen which burns even hotter than mapp gas....its not the heat making it too liquid..its knowing your heat and how to make it work for you...regular propane like this just takes longer to heat up but it can all get the job done regardless...we work with glass in the molten stage on a regular basis, u just have to know how to control the glass when it is to that point..it does take some practice tho.
oh i wasn't saying yours was i thought you did a boss job actually i just recently fixed my micro toro but i used jb weld and it came it smkin hella good but i wanted to keep it all glass and i didnt know if i could reblow it.
What can I do about a crack in my piece? Will this work for that? Idk what to do, my heart is broken.
@discogypsy If your careful the glass will not lose much of its shape, when the glass is hot it has the consistency of play dough, if you hold it in one place it will droop, close up and basically be ruined, this is why i constantly rotate the piece while over the flame. Propane is the perfect gas to use, if you have something that burns too hot you will ruin your piece and have a puddle of molten glass.
you should make a video of your attempt, id love to see it
@homeslicery92 Annealing glass as far as i can tell refers to bottle type glass, pipes are a pyrex type of glass. I don't really know enough to be more specific. The pipe wont crack as long as you don't introduce it to any extremes. Heat it slowly, when cooling place it on a warm or room temperature fire proof surface, if the surface is cool or cold the pipe will cool too quickly and crack. If you do get a crack or two just heat the pipe again and they will disappear.
aw shit and I was about to toss out a slyme oil dome that broke from the base, its going to be a easy fix. Thanks
can i use a propane torch to actually blow glass? i want to try this but i dont want to go spending hundreds of dollars.
i wonder if i still have my broken bubbler
@nitsuj1980 Propane burns at the perfect temperature, if you go too hot the glass will go to a liquid like consistency and be very difficult to do anything with. I've made that mistake.
Alright so my bowl pretty much broke in half but the actual bowl is fine, the other half however, shattered. Is it fixable???
so i can do this with a propane torch? i tried with my old one and it just cracked more
I checked out a few pics of pre-mentioned bong and it should be relatively easy. Still want to see your video though.
i don't see why this wouldn't work but still id rather ask before attempting this. also i was thinking if the propane method isn't possible maybe some UV glue for glass or some other types of glass glues for reassembling my piece, i found a variety of permanent sealing glues for glass at amazon if any one wants to know.. any help or advice is appreciated. thanks inTylerable
Hey I just bought a 18" 6 arm tree perc and my Iphone fell off my table and landed ion the base and a quarter sized piece chipped off; it's one solid piece; can I fix this?
InTylerable Do you think that a standard stove top burner could burn hot enough to achieve this result?
No, sorry. Torches aren't very expensive though.
btw if you had just used a oxy/propane or oxy/acetylene torch that many mechanics have you could have indeed repaired the pieces. It's always risky that the crack will run and you are not properly annealing it, but at least the torch would be hot enough.
Does it have to be a propane torch that big? Like is it cool to leave it on that log?
That is as small as you want to go any smaller of a torch and it won't be able to heat it completely also I have never personally had any problems with leaving a torch on for a long time
awesome dude im about to try this haha and i expect to fail but ay its broken already right? lol awesome man thanks it never occured to me that i could fix my broken pipe simply by heating it up and patience. well thanks again im gonna go see if i can do it haha
What do you suggest for cracks that havent broken? It's a very simple straight glass tube for concentrates and the crack is at the tip and it looks like a 1/4 of the tip is about to break off.
brush the torch over it with the tip first then move it to the inside cone and follow the crack slowly .... be sure to brush first or you might over heat too fast
Thank you for the tip I will try that.
Do you think MAPP gas (yellow tank, but propane like) which burns a little hotter would work better?
yes
still very cool though, you can do that with such a small torch!
125,648 broken pipes :D
+JMORATIN Buy a GTT Phantom, an awesome torch.
sad
no way Im a Mike T also. with many broken pipes
its a pipe buitiful one but the other day it fell to the floor and shattered four pieces of the middle the back and the head of the pipe are ok but in what what could i blow torch itto put the pieces bck together i managed to wood glue it bck together though
also, will my steamroller look the same after the repair?
how do you recommend i get into glass blowing?
@xlxshanexlx I would recommend school or apprenticeship with a professional. I have no training, this is just one of my many hobbies and I made all my mistakes the hard way, many of them painful. After doing this randomly for ten years or so i just recently found out about the toxic fumes blowing glass produces. That could have been bad. Most art schools offer glass blowing classes. Good luck.
You can fix it with the same process, I have put pipes back together that have been in several pieces. Make sure it is cleaned perfectly and it will not discolor.
mine shatter once was could why happened 2 time?cheers
You're kind of right here. He is wrong, the annealing temperature is actually 1050. Also, by this comment you are implying he's trying to tell an "expert" something. Are you saying you are a "NASA" level glassblower? I'd like to argue that if that's the case..
@KvnNavarro92 If the piece you're missing leaves a hole smaller than a pinhead you can manipulate the pieces together when the glass is hot and it will all fuse together. The glass sticks to itself when hot like some insane glue. If the piece you're missing is bigger you can always use a piece of glass of similar size from another broken pipe. This takes some practice playing with hot glass but it can be done. DO NOT put the pipe in cold water when you're done! Let it cool at room temperature.
@SpFx2011 After some research about your question I found that the glass is the same it just has a chemical additive to make it glow. It should work fine. Be careful with the sculpture as it will become soft and easily deformed and i would recommend very good ventilation. I don't know what kind of toxic fumes blowing glow in the dark glass produces but better safe than sorry. Good luck. Let me know how it goes or if you have any questions.
yes its called glass polishing
so can i fuse a downstem into a glass bong just by heating it? like a glass on glass piece
Sure as long as there are no bushings but why would you want to do that how would you carb it?
@@ryangriffin4618 by having glass on glass?
Why would you do this with a sweater on? It almost catches fire when you re-position the piece.
Hopefully it isn’t a synthetic sweater at least
Yes as you heat the glass it will smooth any sharp edges naturally, its called polishing glass.
@SmoothAction916 It's Borosilicate glass. 70% silica 10% Boron Oxide 8% Potassium oxide 8% Sodium Oxide 1% Calcium Oxide. Sorry no plastic. I have never had any problems. Have you ever tried it?
I couldn't really see your face well, but is that you Jesse (Pinkman)?
Mebbe work for awile..but nothing beats proper annealing at 1000 degrees for 15 min...Harmonicapete
basically use a mix of propane and oxygen to make it burn hotter.
Sure, send me the vid. If I can I'll try and make a video response, I have to find another broken piece though. If I can't find a piece I can at least talk you through it. Your butane burner should work ok, I started with a bunsen burner. Bongs are more tricky than pipes, you will have to find a way to hold it securely without burning yourself because you still have to heat the whole piece evenly at first or it will crack. Thanks for the props let me know when you send the video.
@gnarcloud The only time glass discolored on me was when it wasn't completely clean. Clean it like it was new and it should be fine.
Hey dude awesome video, i have a problem i actually broke one of my pipes and right near the bowl going to the stem, it looks like a clean break because i can put it back together, but there is a tiny piece missing, what do i do? will doing what your doing matter whether that piece is missing, or does it melt completely and fuse the two broken parts together? Please help! and Thanks
P.S. do you put the the pipe in cold water after your done or not ... i love playing with fire lol safetry1st :D
Did you fix it yet
and this kind of thing would work on a cracked 14mm, female, ground joint? its all in one piece, just a small hairline fracture
bouta try this on my banger
Thanks, I just. Role my bubbly
Honestly I've never tried, it will probably work with a bigger torch, might as well try.
my pipe cracked from the middle of the stem to the mouth. It never separated though. Can this still work to fuse the crack together?
dang this comment is ten years old and still valid
@SmoothAction916 Its cool, gotta love the jb weld, never thought of that, good idea.
Have you ever smoked a piece that was repaired with JB weld or any other epoxy? You'll b tasting that shit for a month straight. And there's pretty much nothing you can do to remove that smell aside from removing the epoxy altogether. It's so bad you're gonna taste what u you're smelling. .
Would it be dangerous to do this with a thinner reclaim catcher
Yes dumb fuck
not if youre very careful. If its thinner glass you risk cracking it more if not done slowly.
+Pancho Villa yes indeed as with like a oil burner hand pipe... oh say 2 to 3 mm thick, u heat it slow and it bit more evenly instead of focusing hard and heavy on that one spot .. that way one side of the pipe isn't cold and contracting while your heating and expanding the spot right next 2 it, causing said crack
The thinner the glass is, the more difficult it is to rework it. Usually when you find a piece with thin glass, the glass is subpar glass anyways and not worth reheating. Never try to fix a piece that uses cheap glass, like those inexpensive bowls found in most smoke shops.
It’s not safe regardless just get some safety glasses haha Incase it blows up on ya!
i broke my gandalf pipe now its just a normal size pipe
***** Lmao same, just did that like 4 days ago :/
+Dillon Hall i just tried it on two and it works.
It's so sad when prices break, I broke my bowl peice a minute ago and it sucks
You mean hobbit sized
@@nebula3576 I just dropped my banger
The repair should work, if the glass is clean beforehand the color of the glass won't change.