I Built The Most Powerful Blow-Lamp I Could
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- 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):
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T.P. Danger's 'Art of Glass Blowing':
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Faraday's 'Chemical Manipulation':
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Middleton and Knowles' The History of the Thermometer and its Use in Meteorology':
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Hero's pneumatica(woodcroft's 1851 english translation):
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Corning Museum of Glass Lampworking Videos:
• Lampworking in the 1800s
• Lens Making in the 1600s
• The History of Lampwor...
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!
Forgive the essay, I enjoy your channel and journey and would love to see it continue!
As a Silversmith, I was thinking that his use of 60/40 tin/lead solder might prove problematic due to the higher heat of the flame. Historically and modernly outside of leadworks and electronics, solders for metalsmithing are comprised of the workpiece metal (silver or copper, generally) + a miscible dopant/dilutant metal of a much lower melting point, such as Tin or Cadmium. Given that Cadmium is extremely toxic and Tin is not, I recommend Tin. A modern substitution for Cadmium is Bismuth, which when mixed with Tin makes an excellent dopant/diluent for making a solder. You can look up recipes for silver solder by checking the composition percentages from major suppliers of today, such as Rio Grande. Since silver, whose melting point is lower than copper, and its solders are miscible with copper, it will work well for bonding copper. Joints made of these types of solder will be harder to perform as the workpiece metal must be heated to much nearer its melting point than for lead soldering, but the joints will be far stronger and will hold up to being placed in a simple flame.
yeah when i saw the air streams crossing i thought the same thing turbulence is your enemy.
@@Eric-nu3wh Oh Yes it is!! I am a chemical engineer and I do scientific glass blowing and neon repair or shall I say used to. I also built my own laminar torches. You have to search really hard but there are a few really talented people who have built their own laminar torches for their shops. I used an apple corer that was on Amazon like ten years ago and just started being available as the outer tube and 12, 2 or 3mm brass and copper tubes that make up the inner assembly. I used a special filler solder that NOBOX09(I think that is the way he spells it) used when building his torches. Really great stuff and a great art to learn because the torch I wanted was over $1200 and I was not going to throw that money away on a torch because I do not blow glass as a living. I may start building triggered pressurized and custom spark gaps however because they are insanely expensive and very hard to get.
@@Eric-nu3wh 'don't cross the steams' lol :)
absolutely TOP comment sir. Such insights will bring much success to anyone willing to participate in their application. It was frustrating to see him ignore aerodynamic considerations entirely.
"I've hesitated to do this because it is insane."
Likely my favorite quote from any video I’ve ever seen, but also on par with history’s greatest inventors.
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@@الدعوةالىالله-خ8م you might have picked the one person out of this viewer base who’s studied Islam and Arabic language, history, geography, culture, trends, etc for their entire adult career.
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This is insane. It's so cool bridging the technological gap between the medieval and modern eras with this renaissance technology!
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 😊
Thank you! Each new lamp makes soldering easier, though Ive yet to try soldering with this big one!
extremely underrated channel
Fun to see that one of the first proper glassblowing projects you make with the new lamp is a moonshine still!
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!
Thank you! :)
@@fraserbuilds I second that compliment....please influence as many as possible! Your clear calm collective voice and narration of your videos is refreshing to modern mumblers, thanks man, stay smart........
the Steve Mould joke at 9:00 was hilarious
This channel is such a gem.
Babe wake up, Fraser Builds posted
Im back!
Haha, it's true! 🤗
Haha exactly I was like 🫸😲🫷
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This meme needs to die, it stopped be funny two years ago
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.
Then we need to get stone age to Victorian next
@@calebkaminski6951 Oh definitely - though that's a MUCH longer distance. In terms of skill and capability, the difference between early Victorian tech and the age of radio is actually slimmer than you would expect. There was a big difference in what materials could be easily acquired, and the catalog of things one could make was much more vast by the end of the end of the vacuum tube era. But, the actual skills needed to make a homebrew version of, say, a vacuum tube computing device, existed long before people knew how to do it
Getting from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age would probably be the hardest point since neither copper nor tin are available everywhere. You need vast shipping networks to reliably make bronze. If we were doing it all over again, it might be worth going the route of John at the Primitive Technology channel, and try to work out a small-forge iron age straight from stone.
@@bearnaff9387 that's what I was thinking of originally just going straight to iron to skip looking copper and the like it would allow a much faster speed run of the tech tree but still sounds like it would take forever or at least a lot of one's life
This is just the plot of doctor Stone
@@bearnaff9387radios are much simpler than any computers, it's a piece of bent wire.
not comparable imo. Developments move quicker because of infrastructure
What do you mean "the skills existed long before when people didn't know how to do it" what would be the skill here? Like dexterity?
how long? Does a monkey have the skill to make a computer but not the knowledge?
A device capable of creating a strong enough vacuum for a vacuum tube was invented in the late 1800s.
I just don't know what this comment is saying.
4:20 i just love your tiny anvil :)
Every thing reminds me of her
Mate you have no idea how much I enjoy your videos, you're probably the only UA-camr whose content makes me go "I definitely have to watch this one".
i miss you buddy, post more please
More is coming soon! I promise!
hooray
With these tools you can produce your own chemistry set. Amazing
I do lampwork, have been making jewelry, aquarium parts, pens, soldering tools, pipes, etc, and actually got started in college almost 30 years ago in my chemistry labs. This video just rekindled my passion for it and now I want to build some of my own supplies. Great, here I go buying more metal working tools to pack into my apartment.
I appreciate you sharing your process and knowledge so much. Your skills as a craftsman are fantastic! That setup is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks again for sharing.
Thank you!
Fraser continues to forge his legacy into the annals of YT builders, with another banger 😎
this tiny candle powered distiller is absolutely adorable
@FraserBuilds When you close chain links, it is much easier to use two pairs of chain-nose pliers (stubbier needle-nose) with some tape around the jaws to prevent marks. I use two pairs of nylon jaw needle-nose for jewelry chains. You could even make leather or rawhide sleeves for the jaws if you don't want to spend the $$ for nylon jaw pliers.
Regarding the historical inaccuracy of your air mattress pump (24:50), just refer to it as your "apprentice" as its activities seem like apprentice work to me :)
Very happy to have a new video from you. Rewatching the older ones has been good, but nothing hits like new information 😊
Your style of video is very enjoyable, dialogue is not exactly descriptive of what we see but done in such a way we get to enjoy what your doing and hear why it’s being done. And the history stuff is awesome as well.
This is definitely fascinating stuff. Would love to see more development going into it!
bravo. I'm always stoked for your videos when they come out. What you love about the blow lamp is exactly what I love about your channel in general -- your videos bridge the ancient world and the modern world, they help me understand better how we got from there, to here. Fascinating stuff! Keep it up!!!
Thank you!
Fantastic! UA-cam doesn't get any better than this. Thanks for sharing your experience and actually trying this thing! I'm sure it will be helpfull to a lot of people, since this tool seems to be pretty much forgotten.
Thank you for these awesome videos about your blowtorches ! I’m a silversmith and appreciate the older soldering methods !
man over here living my dream life. i've always wanted to make tools like this and do thinks like make my own test tubes and stuff.
I found you're videos, and i watched them on a marathon, you're content is amazing, can't wait to see more like.
I watch every minute of these videos, they never get old.
Always a pleasure watching you work. Good job Fraser
Absolutely awesome!!! Thank you for letting as participate in your amazing work and for sharing your experience! I love your videos :-)
Thank you! :) Im so glad you enjoyed it!
This is great! I have no problem waiting a long time in between videos because your production value, meticulous research, and fantastic narration are a treat! Keep up the great work.
good camera work! You show all the steps well, without any camera shot overstaying their welcome.
Thank you!
Nice work! i really liked the retort desk display
Woohoo a new Fraser builds! Wondering if adding a rest for your work to steady it in front of the flame might help keep it even. I'm also a big fan of the CMOG channel. Something I've picked up from Bill Gudentath's videos is that you should never work glass while it is not spinning if you want it round. Thanks for making my Friday!
Love your videos man, glad to see another one
Thank you! Hopefully theyll be coming a little more frequently going forward 😅
I see you like to treat the wood with dye. But after applying the smooth wood finish is gone. I have a simple tip for you: After sanding the wood (up to 320), wipe it with a wet towel and let it dry. This results in to riseing of the wood fibres and the surface gets rough. Then you sand a second time but only use the 320 grid. You can repeat this process, but usually two times is enough. After that, you can dye and finish your piece as normal.
At first this might sound cumbersome, but I promise you it's fare less of an effort than sanding to a stupidly high grid.
One thing you could try if you want to be able to make a LOT of relatively high-pressure air using period-accurate tech is to build yourself a gasometer outside - just a couple of barrels, one full of water and one inverted, a couple boards to keep the inverted barrel upright, a hose off the top of the inverted barrel, and a check valve to let air into the barrel. Should get you several minutes of air in exchange for lifting the barrel once. Either that, or make a blacksmith's style lung/counterlung bellows, where it's split in the middle - bottom bellows is what you move through a lever overhead, top bellows is held up by air pressure and keeps a smooth flow of air.
Great video, incredibly informative, and you show the entire process step by step. I think I'll make my own little blow lamp!
Thank you! Best of luck!
always a joy to see a new video from you!! your insights, craftsmanship, and production quality are genuinely top tier especially for a smaller channel. you're already doing great things but I imagine you'll grow far beyond your current audience before long. keep up the good work!
Incredible. Your videos just blow my mind. I would love to emulate you but afraid I wouldn't have the same passion to follow through with results like you are achieving. Great video. Keep them coming.
Hey Fraser - I've only just recently diacovered your channel, and love it a lot.
In regard to the pressure/air supply problem, I have a suggestion: Ctesibius' water organ. It used bellows to blow air under water, where it was pressurised to be released using a keyboard.
Perhaps you could use something like that? Two foot-pumps to periodically (or continuously) pump air into a reservoir like that, and use a 'key' to open the valves as needed?
Cool! You could consider to use the procedure for the air stream that bellow organs use. You pump up big bellows with smaller ones separated by a one way valve, while the big bellows release a constant air stream using a weight. That will make you less exhausted.
I will never get over the screeching fart one way valve
I've made something simular to your spirit lamp. It's fun to try and use it even though I don't have it all worked out yet.
You do good work mate, you dig into historical applications and descriptions while making it interesting and practical. It is likely you have increased the number of people using blow-lamps in the world by several factors 👨🏭🧑🏭👩🏭
good work. Keep having fun at learning new skills. I'm working on refining my space to be able to incorporate some small smithy and perhaps glass blowing capacity in the future.
Excellent video on historic lampworking.
I'm so excited to see another video from you! I can tell how much love goes into making each piece :)
I find your videos fascinating and very informative watching someone who is very passionate about what they are doing is extremely refreshing
Thank you!
crazy artistry making the lamp, what a gem of a channel
thanks to you i started to make a pipe in forge copper pipe and start making brasing and som small metal work
i noticed quick that the size of the nozzle direct influence the heat but it depend on the size of the initial flamme so i did
3 differents copper pipe for 3 different flamme , i succed to melt copper wire within 25 sec after a little training , i actually doing circular breath and planned to make some baloon system like jewel maker use , and your video came , so inspiring , thanks a lot
Simply amazing, I love watching your work. Keep doing them!
Also theres this bellow design that blows air both in the closing and opening actions, I saw it being made and used in the Townsends forge videos, if youre interested. The thing is huge and blows a huge chunk of air, perhaps a smaller scale one could help in your pursuit to the ultimate blowtorch
Absolutely loving your channel. Love the artistry. Love the history. Love the pace. Beautiful work all round
This vid is amazing!! I work in an analytical lab and it's so cool seeing the early forms of things we still utilise being used so skillfully!!
Fascinating, detailed. Wonderful.
Love the development
Glass blowing is so mesmerising
This channel's really an asset for when I get sent back in time and have to bring the ancient greeks modern science.
“A pizza to go with no anchovies? You’ve got the wrong man. I spell my name Danger”
beautiful craftsmanship
I really enjoy your videos. I have done some scientific glassblowing in the past and I would recommend getting some books on scientific glassblowing blowing from your library or, if there is a university near you, their library. The technique for scientific glassblowing is a little different than what you showed in your video. Also a book on scientific glassblowing would show you the steps in making a project like you made. Thank you so much for making these videos! I think they are very important for showing people how it was possible for people in the past to make and do these things. Thanks again
Awesome project. I think i would make dual foot bellows, or attach them to bicycle like pedals. It would be a work out but a fairly easy workout and it shouldneasily supply enough air. Keep up the awesome content/work.
Glass blowing is on my todo list. It's so useful, so versatile.
Oh my god, bro what happened youve blown up since your last video!! Congrats man!!
Thank you! Its been really exciting!
@@fraserbuilds our little mud alchemist all grown up 🥹
Lmao but seriously, I'm so happy for you! Fingers crossed for 100k by the next video!
@@Finding_Arcadia The mud alchemist movement grows stronger!🥳
I think you need to shape the exposed portion of the wick. Fluff out the edges so to speak. You might be able to add multiple blow pipes over a wider or deeper Flame.
Your channel is among my favorites.
Thank you so much for sharing your amazing creation. Love your channel
As someone who is from Corning, it's always a bit jarring when something from my hometown comes up when I'm not expecting it. CMoG was the default field trip destination for school trips growing up
I am always elated to see another video of yours! I would be very interested if you could make a list of the tools you use. I myself have started to do some woodworking/metalworking projects and I would be cool to know what tools you would suggest. As always I am blown away by your crafts!
Thank you! I was thinking I would incorporate something like that into the workshop tour video
"T.P. Danger" is one hell of a name
It amazes me that a device so simple can melt silver out in the open on top of a chunk of wood. I would never have guessed that.
On the danger of leading you down a path leading to madness, might I suggest reading up on organ-building?
The system of bellows and a self-regulating air-reservoir might be a solution to providing a steady stream of air.
Man im loving this series. I have been blowing glass for 5 years now on the side, and my first reaction to your comment near the start about not getting the glass as hot as they describe, i believe it could be due to you using borosilicate or 'hard' glass instead of soda lime or 'soft' glass.
Not to sure when borosilicate became commonplace but it has a muuuuch higher working temp as compared to soft glass.
I reeeealy wana try making one to replace my current Oxy/lpg torch as bottled oxygen prices add up fast
thank you for exploring these obscure but essential tools for early scientists and inventors
A fantastic video! So fascinating and educational.
Thank you!
Great! I was waiting for you, thank you.
great series
Very well done! You are certainly an inspiration!
27:41 “My retorts neck ended up a little twisted…” ok so I know what you said, but I heard something very different, caught me off guard lol
You could totally have hooked up a spring-loaded treadle to a flywheel and an impeller, and for the air flow valve, you could have the air input upwards into a chamber with a sphere that's slightly larger than the input nozzle, and have the output hole be an oval or some other form of grooving so that even if the sphere gets pushed towards the output hole the air can flow around it; that way when there's no air flowing in the sphere falls down and blocks the input tube from any backdraft, but when you blow through it opens up
Looking at your glassworking, one thing that appears as likely very useful would be an elevated flat edge you can lean the glass rod on while you're holding it in the fire.
Be careful and keep going you're doing an excellent job❤
For the bending of the thicker glass, give a little positive pressure into it while you bend it.
Great work on merging the three bulbs though, thats honestly tougher than it looks without getting too much bulging/thinness dispersed weirdly. Great build!
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now you can blow glass with the lamp, you can make a check valve with glass and a small ball. Use a weak spring to keep some preload on it and make an air tank out of some kind of rubber that is stiffer than a balloon. It wil alow you to blow more consistently and requre less effort to keep a consistent airflow. Fantastic video, youve earnt my sub.
Great vidoe. Really informative. Thank you.
I wonder if you would be interested in describing limitations of using your lungs versus an air compressor, Totally appreciate the "Dr. Stone" aspect of making your own period correct tools. I both love to see it and wish i knew what to expect out of that thing if i make one, I am certainly not going to breathe on it to spite my compressor.
If you add two pressure chambers, you could squeeze one pressure chamber with your knees to insert air, and have one act as a reservoir to keep pressure over time.
Great video! I learned a lot about topics I didn't realize would interest me. Keep up the incredible research on human achievements! Also "Danger" in French carries the same meaning as "danger" in English. I doubt his ghost was too bothered by your previous slight mispronunciation.
Alchemists had the advantage of multipole apprentices to run bellows.
You filed the retort open? To pop a hole that you cant blow open in glass, you take a cold glass rod and run where you want your hole to be in the torch flame. If you get the glass covering what you want to be a hole hot enough you can take the glass rod touch it into the molten glass and turn the rod in your hand to gather up the glass puddle onto the rod, thinning out the molten glass until you pick the hole out. If you can, and how evenly you can pick a hole is a foundation skill in glass blowing. As well as how round you can blow a bubble and how well you can weld a rod or tube back together. The welding exercise goal is to make the weld to where you cant tell a weld is even there and the weld is strong enough to jar onto a table and the weld will not break. The only tip I will give for good welds is make sure both weld points are hot enough and most important evenly heated before you stick them together then slightly pull apart to reform evenly. These are things best watched 10 times and practiced 50 to develop.
Working the glass cold around a torch is pretty much a shop no no because it can produce fine glass frit that can go airborne and enter your lungs. If you work it cold its a separate spot and in water as a cooling fluid and capture the dust. But this is mostly a work related hazard rather than just making a hole with a file 1 time.
As far as blowing a glass bulb evenly its about wall thickness or the tube, how many cm of material you can evenly heat and at what temp. you perform the blow to form a proper even bulb, for instance, if you want a bigger bulb. you might have to step up the diameter of the tube as well as the wall thickness if youre attempting too big of a bulb on too small of material. OR in this case how much material you can heat with your torch. Hence why glass blowers will usually opt to get the biggest most costly torch they can find to work big material then adjust it down to a smaller jeweler torch flame for small work. Since the big burner is their version of a glory hole.
I just recently saw a goldsmith who used a blowtorch with an attached tube that she blew into and I immediately had to think think of your videos and the history behind the blowtorch.
new fraser build!! :D
Now he's gonna make huge 2 stage belows like blacksmith.
Well dude, that was totally amazing. Now i feel like i can rebuild civilization from scratch, with this blowlamp and a lathe xD
There is a design for a low pressure methane digestor, intended to capture methane gas from composting organic matter for personal use, it might provide what you are looking for.
It uses two barrels, one nested upside down inside the other. The outer barrel is filled with water, capturing a gas/air pocket inside the upturned one. As the gas volume increases it raises the floating inner barrel and allows gravity to press the weight of the barrel down on the gas pocket to provide a steady pressure to the system and push out the captured gas.
Perhaps, instead of connecting the inlet to a methane generator, you could drill a one way flapper valve (like the ones used in your bellows) into the top of the upturned barrel, allowing air in but not out.
You would charge the system by manually lifting the barrel to suck air into the chamber through the valve, then let the weight of the barrel push the air out through the blow tube?
Have you considered connecting the air supply for the torch to w water tromp. Its a period accurate way to provide large volumes of compressed air utilizing water flow.
Hello again! It occurs to me while listening to your observations concerning a leather bellows that a possible solution to the problem might be to take up the bagpipe as an alternate hobby, that way you can build up your endurance, acquire an appreciation for one of the most enduring musical instruments, and use the instrument itself as a multi-port air reservoir when not actually practising music.
This is meant as a joke... but with a practical suggestion built in. Got the idea listening to your one-way valve, and couldn't help myself.
And if you get good at the bagpipe, you can use it as a background track and license it for additional sponsorship opportunities...?
Bravo bro! Look into Japanese forge bellows. It works pull & push for constant air flow.. also metal or wood flap valves work well for open/close channels. thanks, excellent alchemy sir! True inspiration.
You can see how this time was full of innovation.
Practicioners had to have a good understanding of the basic principles of their feild as there were not so many pre prepared tools or materials.
Not only that, they needed cross disciplinary knowledge too.
Mixing of ideas from different feilds leads to fresh innovation.
Specialisation as we have now is great for deapening and refining but not so much for break throughs.
To be fair, the innovations they had left so much room for optimising that we are still at it today in many areas. The impact is actually far greater in optimising than in its original creation. (Eg early steam engines were bearly better than existing forms of power, the optimised ones were responsible for the industrial revolution, including cross continental rail).
18:23 Bonus elephant content!
Such a great episode. I've been recently starting my own journey with small glasswork, but came across a lot of hurdles when it comes to heat. This episode came at the right time to see you overcome these! Thanks! Quick question, what do you use for cooling/annealing?