I’m wondering if anybody has a glass cutter, preferably diamond wire, I could use at the shop for an afternoon. I have some glass tubes, about 3" diameter I need to cut to shorter lengths. My design isn’t finalized, so I don’t know when I would need it, I’m just planning currently.
David
Thought we had one in the shelf by the door of the ERP.
Not that one, that’s all passive components. The other one with the grey cases on the top shelf.
Midway down? But it may have been moved to the rolling tool box.
We have a wine bottle cutter too some a wheres.
Are they short enough to use the rotary tool on the laser cutter?
They’re about 7 ft long. I’m still working out design, so I’m not sure how long I need the pieces to be after cut. It’s possible I could score and break them so they’ll fit in the laser, then cut them to the appropriate length with that. Not sure how all that works, though. I didn’t think the laser was hot enough to actually cut glass, just etch it.
I’ll take a look at what’s in the ERP tomorrow. That might be just what I need!
I have a glass bandsaw - have not tried it yet - got it used, but you are welcome to the use of it if it would help
That would be fantastic! I’ll be at the shop tomorrow to do some work in the woodshop, so I’ll check what’s in the ERP lab first. If I don’t see anything that will work for me, I’ll let you know and we can coordinate a time for me to use it. It shouldn’t take terribly long - maybe a couple of hours or so.
I will put it in the car
Depends on your definition of ‘cut’. Glass tends to fracture when you attempt to cut it with the laser. It doesn’t really like being rapidly and unevenly heated.
This is exactly what I was looking for! It even had the same design as what I was thinking I would make if it came to it. This should do the trick
So in the past when I use the lasercutter I made a line like 10x longer than the circumference of my bottle (I was cutting beer bottles) then t l used a lower power and higher speed. That stressed the glass over and over in the same spot, and they would just pop apart in your hand.
Had to go WAY back!
