Re: [ATM] cutting a big piece of plate glass into mirror or tool

[Dan Harriman <kc5gxl@sbcglobal.net>]

Thank you James!

Those are excellent photos and video! How long did it take to
cut a circle with this set-up?

Thanks for posting them

Clear and dark skies,

Dan Harriman
Orange, Texas

At 10:50 7/15/2007, you wrote:

>Having cut a fair amount of thick glass into circles, if I had to do it
>again starting over from nothing, I'd do it as follows.
>
>#1 Cut thick glass into rough squares using glass cutter, hammer, and
>chisel like this:
>     http://lerch.no-ip.com/atm/Projects/Glass_Work/cut_glass/
>
>#2 Fabricate slow speed rotating turn table with wood top.   Here's how
>I built my last one, but I'd do the next one with non-wood materials,
>but this one worked fine for several months.
>     http://lerch.no-ip.com/atm/Projects/Glass_mill_Med/
>
>#3 Get a cheap angle grinder with diamond wheel (4 or 5 inch) and attach
>it to an arm (or something) that allows you to move it up and down.
>
>#4 Using pitch, attach glass to thin plywood or something (needs to be
>kinda flexible so you can pop the glass of later)
>
>#5 Put glass pitched to thin plywood on turntable, center glass, screw
>thin plywood in place.  Rotate turn table at approx 60rpm (slow) lower
>angle grinder onto glass while flooding it with water.  (wear proper
>safety gear)  End result may look like this: (video on last page)
>     http://lerch.no-ip.com/atm/Projects/Glass_mill_Med/First_Cut/

If at first you don't succeed, maybe you shouldn't try sky diving!

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